c/historyphotos · by The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world · 321dVladimir Putin carrying bags for Anatoly Sobchak, the mayor of St. Petersburg, in 1992. It's weird to see Putin like this. 156 points · 15 comments · view on lemmy.world
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rowrowrowyourboat@sh.itjust.works · 61 pts · 321d
7 years later, after fleeing Russia for corruption charges, his friend Putin, soon to be Prime Minister, got the charges dropped and brought him back home.
Less than a year later, he died of suspected poisoning.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoly_Sobchak
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 21 pts · 321d
That’s just the highs and lows of being Putin’s friend.
One day you’re cooking hot dogs and the next your airplane is being shot out of the sky.
GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca · 31 pts · 321d
Interesting note, his right hand is free and he has two briefcase in his left hand. I think he was more than just an aide.
PugJesus@piefed.social · 10 pts · 321d
Low-level covfefe boy
ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 321d
Lol why is this black&white. It’s 1992 not 1942.
The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world · 7 pts · 321d
Yes, but it's 1992 in Russia.
(jokes aside, I wondered the same thing)
TheBat@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 321d
rhvg@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 321d
That era primed many Putins, killing one doesn’t really change anything.
altphoto@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 321d
That's why I carry my own bags. Don't wanna make dictators.
crazyminner@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 321d
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PeihcfYft9w
rhvg@lemmy.world · -13 pts · 321d
He fought his way up, unlike other dictators eg Xi and Trump inherited money or power.
Phineaz@feddit.org · 9 pts · 321d
*Murdered
Successful_Try543@feddit.org · 5 pts · 321d
Didn't Xi's dad end up in a Chinese gulag when Xi was still young?
ianfraserkrillmaster@midwest.social · 14 pts · 321d
life was hard in the hundred acre wood
Successful_Try543@feddit.org · 7 pts · 321d
rhvg@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 321d
Thats an interlude. Billionaires sometimes broke, but they came back richer.