Putin ordered the opening of war against Ukraine, and many celebrities posted on social media calling for world peace. Among them, the American actress McCord is even more imaginative, she recorded a video to Putin in the air shouting, Barabala a long paragraph, seems to imply that the political strongman suffered childhood trauma led to today's situation.
There are not many accounts of Putin's mother in the media, but Hillary Clinton has revealed some tragic past of the strong mother.
So, what kind of woman is Putin's mother? How much influence does she have on Putin? What important women did Putin later in his life? How did they participate in shaping Putin?
01 Mother Maria Ivanovva
In 2014, In an interview with Canadian television, Hillary revealed that Russia's president's mother was almost buried alive during World War II.
In the interview, she said that once at dinner with Putin, she said to Putin, who was sitting next to her: "I visited the Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) Monument to the Defense War the other day, and I was very moved. ”
Putin then described to her what happened to his own family in World War II.
He said his mother was in the city when the Germans besieged Leningrad. At this time, his father was injured on the front line, and when he returned home from the hospital bandage, he found that the body collection team was coming out of his house. After identifying her mother's shoes from the corpse, the father forced the corpse collection team to release the unconscious mother home, and finally saved her.
Clinton told the host that if Putin's account is true, he is telling the outside world that Russia and himself have experienced an unusual history.
Putin's mother, Maria Ivanovna, was born in 1911. In an autobiographical article titled "President Putin Remembers His Childhood," Putin reveals that his mother had little culture, worked as a cleaner, picked up goods for a bakery at night, washed test tubes in a laboratory, and worked as a janitor at a consignment store.
In 1952, at the age of 41, Maria gave birth to Putin, because the first two children died very early, so Putin became the mother's only child and the mother's only sustenance.
His mother gave Putin meticulous care. His father had asked young Putin to learn to play the accordion, but Putin preferred sports. After the wrestling coach successfully persuaded his parents, Putin began to exercise his physique and athleticism, laying a solid physical foundation for him to join the KGB and enter politics in the future.
Although his mother spoiled him, she did not relax at all in all aspects of his requirements, such as requiring him not to lag behind others in learning, maintaining a neat appearance in life, and sometimes forcing his son to change his shirt three times a day.
It is said that people with strong physical energy are more likely to have a strong heart and a strong spirit, and the tough guy temperament that Putin has shown since he entered politics is obviously inseparable from the physical exercise he has received since childhood.
In this respect, mothers play a decisive role in shaping Putin's life.
02 Ex-wife Lyudmila Putinna
Putin's ex-wife, Lyudmila, was a flight attendant whose personality was gentle and low-key, completely different from Putin.
During the relationship, Putin showed machismo: when dating, it is common to be more than an hour late. When he proposed, he had already set a wedding date.
German biographer Alexander Lal once exposed Putin's unknown side: before marriage, Putin arranged for a friend to propose to Lyudmila in order to test Lyudmila's loyalty to himself.
It seems that even in the face of love, Putin still shows a suspicious side of his personality.
In his later biography, Putin wrote about his mentality when proposing marriage: if he could not get married in two or three years, he would never get married. “
This passage is understood by the public as: If it were not for Lyudmila, I would never have gotten married.
But what Putin means is not that Lyudmila does not marry, but that if she cannot marry within the planned time, then she will not get married. I think this attitude reflects Putin's hegemonic character.
After marriage, as Putin's career rose step by step, he was unable to give his wife the necessary companionship at some important moments.
Lyudmila once complained to biographers that when she gave birth to her eldest daughter, Putin was on a business trip, and she had to drive alone to the hospital to give birth; when she was pregnant with her second child, Putin was sent to Germany to work, and Lyudmila had to endure the loneliness of being in a foreign country, but also to take care of her eldest daughter alone.
I can't understand this a little: Putin is on a business trip, and Lyudmila has no family or relatives to take her to the hospital?
In 1994, Lyudmila was in a serious car accident and took two surgeries to get out of danger. During this period, Putin was still busy with official affairs and rarely visited his wife in the hospital.
After Putin was elected president of Russia in 2000, Lyudmila was so devastated that she said: "When I learned from my friends that he was elected, I cried all day. I knew I would never have a private life again. ”
Heck, not every woman wants to be first lady and live in the spotlight with her husband. Putin's repeated re-elections have made Lyudmila intolerable.
German writer Elena Och has written a book called "Fragile Friendship", which mentions that putin and his wife are very tense, Lyudmila half-truths call Putin "vampire", putin bluntly said that "a man who can endure his wife for more than 3 weeks should get a monument".
In 2013, a few weeks before the 30th wedding anniversary of the Putins, the two went to the theater together to watch the ballet "Esmeralda". After the first act, the couple leaves the theater and announces the end of the marriage to the waiting reporter.
I appreciate the news of Putin's public divorce during his presidency. Because too many leaders, in order to take care of the image, either drag on not to divorce or hide the news of divorce. Putin's frankness not only gives Lyudmila the opportunity to find happiness again, but also conforms to her own "Gengzhi" personality.
In 2016, Lyudmila announced her remarriage for a small fresh meat 21 years younger than her. After marriage, the two bought a villa in the south of France and lived a quiet life.
03 Putin's two daughters
Lyudmila and Putin have two daughters.
The eldest daughter Maria was born in 1985 and the youngest daughter Catherine was born in 1986. The two daughters looked very similar when they were young and both were beautiful.
The outside world is rumored to be a daughter slave. I think that even if he is a daughter slave, Putin does not have enough time to accompany her daughter to grow up, but he can make up for it in other ways.
By the time the two sisters entered high school, Putin had already entered Russia's center of state power. For safety reasons, Putin did not let them go to private schools, but let teachers come to their homes to teach them.
Maria was a scholar, proficient in 4 foreign languages, admitted to St. Peter's University, one of Russia's top universities, and after graduation, she entered Moscow University and obtained a degree of medical doctorate.
After graduation, Maria entered the medical field and married a Dutch businessman, Jollyson Fasson, who had worked as an executive at Gazprom.
Maria herself is a senior executive at Nomec, a major medical institution, and holds a 20% stake in the company. The company's market capitalization is about $600 million, which means that Maria's personal assets exceed $100 million.
The youngest daughter, Catherine, has a lively personality and likes to exercise, which is very similar to her father. She is also a scholar, with a dual master's degree in physics and mathematics, and is currently working as a project manager at Moscow University.
Catherine's husband, Shamarov, is a rich second-generation man, his father is a rich man in Russia, whose business involves medical treatment, finance and other aspects, and Putin has been friends for many years.
Using his status as a presidential pony, Shamarov bought a large stake in Sibul, Russia's largest oil and gas company, after marriage, becoming Russia's youngest billionaire.
The media estimated catherine and her husband's assets, thinking that more than $2 billion, is really the kind of thing that can't be used up.
But Shamarov is not a peaceful man, he was found to have cheated in marriage, and Catherine, as the daughter of Putin the Great, naturally could not stand it, so the two divorced in 2018.
How dare a businessman betray the president's daughter? Shamarov paid a terrible price, losing nearly half of his assets and being kicked out of the Sibul Oil Company.
Russian media often boast that Putin's two daughters have gone to top universities on their own and achieved outstanding career success. To be honest, I was a little unbelieving.
Because, since the son-in-law betrayed the marriage, the property has shrunk significantly, and the social status has plummeted, it must be Putin's role behind it. So and so on, why wouldn't he be equally active in his daughter's studies and careers?
Of course, if the two daughters inherit Putin's genes, then they will have more or less the characteristics of hard work and enterprising, but it is really a bit too much to say that they are completely on their own, right?
04 Putin baby Kabayeva
A year after divorcing his ex-wife, Putin revealed that he had a new love, and everyone speculated that the new love was Russian gymnastics queen Alina Kabayeva.
First of all, let's talk about the dazzling aura on Kabaeva's body: she won the bronze medal in gymnastics at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, the gold medal in gymnastics at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, and others like the World Championships, the World Cup final, etc., she has won the championship, is a rare Grand Slam winner in gymnastics, and was named the sexiest athlete in Russia because of her outstanding appearance.
Kabayeva retired in 2005, and that year she also received a medal from Putin himself, the first time the two of them intersected.
After that, Kabaeva moved to politics, joined Putin's Russian Unity Party, and soon became vice president. After quitting politics, she moved into Russia's largest private media company, which is managed by the nephew of Mr. Putin's cronies.
All these coincidences forced kabayeva to associate with Putin and call her Putin's baby, though both came forward to deny it.
In 2009, Kabayeva gave birth to a boy out of wedlock at a private hospital in Moscow. At that time, a large number of agents appeared in the hospital, sealing off the entire hospital, and no one except the medical staff was allowed to enter or leave.
The hospital where Kabaeva gave birth is very famous in Russia, and the patients who come and go from this hospital are either rich or expensive. Can you imagine how much power it would take to seal off such a hospital and dispatch so many agents?
There are three more corroborating rumors that the child Kabayeva gave birth to is Putin's child:
One is that many people think that this child is very similar to Putin. To be honest, I don't think this is because Caucasian children look a lot like us?
Second, the news of Kabayeva's birth has not been reported by the main media in Russia.
Third, at the celebration banquet of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, Kabayeva and Putin attended at the same time, and they carried the same couple ring on their hands.
Since then, Kabaeva gave birth to a baby girl in Switzerland in 2015 and twin sons in Moscow in 2019, each time enjoying special security measures.
If the biological fathers of these four children are Putin, then Putin is a father of six children, and he should really be congratulated.
Western media believe that Putin and Kabayeva have long been officially married, but not publicly.
In fact, Kabayeva and Putin are barbaric. One is masculine, the other sexy and feminine, and both are leaders in their fields.
So why hide it?
Supposedly for Putin's approval ratings. Inside Russia, Putin has a large group of die-hard fans of middle-aged women who cannot accept Putin marrying a woman with an age difference of 31 years after his divorce. For the sake of support, for the sake of his career, Putin can only choose to marry in secret.
From Putin's mother, to his ex-wife and two daughters, to the legendary secret wife, the five most important women in Putin's life are extraordinary. So, who do you think is the best?