Putin is afraid of being poisoned - just like Stalin

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"Vladimir Putin is, just like Stalin, extremely afraid that he will be poisoned," writes the Kresy24.pl portal, referring to the publication of the British "Daily Mail."

The founder of the elite club of chefs who cook for the most important people in the world, Jules Bragar, shared his knowledge about Vladimir Putin's paranoid fear of poison.

Bragar told the paper about his experience in his work with Vladimir Putin. It turns out that the current Russian President, just like Stalin, wishes, among others, that all the dishes placed upon his table should be checked whether they contain poison by a doctor and a chef.

Let us remind that Putin's grandfather, Spirydion Putin, was Vladimir Lenin's chef in his cottage in Gorki. After Lenin's death he cooked, among others, for Nadiezhda Krupska, a widow after the leader of the USSR and also for Joseph Stalin.

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niezalezna.pl

Posted on Fri, 2012-07-27 

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