Friends asked me to check up on this. The questions were, how rich is Putin and how big is his house.
My answer, which nobody else believed, is that Putin lives in a small apartment.
I was just guessing based on my general understanding of things, but it also happens to be the truth, I quickly determined later. Or at least he lives in one of his two small apartments, in Moscow and St Petersburg, when he is not traveling, which is frequently. And he works long hours, so he's rarely in those apartments anyway. It wouldn't be any different if he had the $100B pad many theorize he has, based on western propaganda. When would he have time to choose the lampshades?
My friends weren't buying. They'd heard Putin is the worlds richest man, or something like that, worth $160 Billion.
I said that's wrong. He doesn't need that kind of "wealth," only western oligarchs do. He doesn't need it, so he hasn't bothered to acquire it, it would be just a waste of time. He's too busy doing other things. He lives for his work, the man who more than any other helped create an independent Russian State, not subservient to Western power and finance.
St. Putin. The greatest world leader of the past 20 years by far, and certainly if you are Russian.
Well, that brought out the laughs and other stuff. One friend strongly believes Putin is nothing other than a continuation of the corrupt US backed Yeltsin, and they both came from KGB which describes everything about them. Putin being identical to Yeltsin is easily disproven. Putin was the workaholic public administrator who (along with many friends) rescued Russia from becoming a corrupt US client petrostate, as had almost been institutionalized by Yetsin whose friends were western-friendly oligarchs owning everything.
Anyway, the story about Putin being worth $160 billion comes from one highly unreliable crooked tax cheating oligarch defector named William Browder. He had every reason to lie, as he wanted asylum in the USA. And he did lie about many things, as is now well established.
Because of his lies, the US passed the Magnitsky Act to punish Russia, which of course the US Congress wanted to do anyway. It turns out Magnitsky wasn't even a registered accountant or lawyer, so the whole story Browder presented to Congress is demonstrably false.
But it provided the magic numbers, $100-$160 Billion, reported by the NYTimes, so they must be true.
And that's how Western Media Russophobia (and other Orientalism) works, just the tip of the iceberg anyway. Lies of the worst liars become the truth, and you're crazy or PutinBot if you think otherwise.
Here's a pretty good article on Putin's wealth.
And by the way, what would you pay to already be recognized as one of the world's greatest leaders? What would that be worth to you??? Sadly, US leaders have not much chosen to go this route, at least since FDR.
My answer, which nobody else believed, is that Putin lives in a small apartment.
I was just guessing based on my general understanding of things, but it also happens to be the truth, I quickly determined later. Or at least he lives in one of his two small apartments, in Moscow and St Petersburg, when he is not traveling, which is frequently. And he works long hours, so he's rarely in those apartments anyway. It wouldn't be any different if he had the $100B pad many theorize he has, based on western propaganda. When would he have time to choose the lampshades?
My friends weren't buying. They'd heard Putin is the worlds richest man, or something like that, worth $160 Billion.
I said that's wrong. He doesn't need that kind of "wealth," only western oligarchs do. He doesn't need it, so he hasn't bothered to acquire it, it would be just a waste of time. He's too busy doing other things. He lives for his work, the man who more than any other helped create an independent Russian State, not subservient to Western power and finance.
St. Putin. The greatest world leader of the past 20 years by far, and certainly if you are Russian.
Well, that brought out the laughs and other stuff. One friend strongly believes Putin is nothing other than a continuation of the corrupt US backed Yeltsin, and they both came from KGB which describes everything about them. Putin being identical to Yeltsin is easily disproven. Putin was the workaholic public administrator who (along with many friends) rescued Russia from becoming a corrupt US client petrostate, as had almost been institutionalized by Yetsin whose friends were western-friendly oligarchs owning everything.
Anyway, the story about Putin being worth $160 billion comes from one highly unreliable crooked tax cheating oligarch defector named William Browder. He had every reason to lie, as he wanted asylum in the USA. And he did lie about many things, as is now well established.
Because of his lies, the US passed the Magnitsky Act to punish Russia, which of course the US Congress wanted to do anyway. It turns out Magnitsky wasn't even a registered accountant or lawyer, so the whole story Browder presented to Congress is demonstrably false.
But it provided the magic numbers, $100-$160 Billion, reported by the NYTimes, so they must be true.
And that's how Western Media Russophobia (and other Orientalism) works, just the tip of the iceberg anyway. Lies of the worst liars become the truth, and you're crazy or PutinBot if you think otherwise.
Here's a pretty good article on Putin's wealth.
And by the way, what would you pay to already be recognized as one of the world's greatest leaders? What would that be worth to you??? Sadly, US leaders have not much chosen to go this route, at least since FDR.
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