Posted on 03/05/2014 5:55:48 PM PST by smoothsailing
Another version puts it this way:
“An apparently younger looking Putin is dressed as a tourist in this photo below, taken in 1988 at Red Square. At the time the Reagan administrations relationship with Russia was warming as the US courted the leadership of what nobody would have thought at the time would soon become the former USSR.”
http://newsbizarre.com/2009/03/picture-vladimir-putin-meets-ronald.html
Nobody but Reagan, that is.
In the above photo, the man with the camera around his neck standing behind the boy was the current Russian Prime Minister (and former president) Vladimir Putin.
LOL, Putin is the guy with the camera standing behind the kid. Putin was 36 at the time the picture was taken. B^)
That pic was taken in 1988 and the boy looks to be 11 or 12 years old. In 2008 he’d have been 20 years older, 31 or 32. Add another 6 years and that makes him 37 or 38, a lot younger than Putin.
Also, he’s not wearing a belt on his trousers. Quite plausible these aren’t his regular clothes - KGB went shopping at The Gap and forgot to get belts.
He's got a pen!
(Wonder if O-mama knows...)
I re read the article and apparently it is the man with the camera who is said to be putin.
form the looks him in that photo I cannot make a postivie ID.
LMAO! Yeah, Putin is extremely “Russian” looking. I bet he could find a 100 body doubles just in New York.
A stoic character.
There’s a critical vacuum of leadership in the United States.
And a phone! Uh-Oh.
yes...and I cant really tell from that version of the photo.
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Well that settles it. He has all it takes to be, um, _resident...
Different person IMO.
You gotta be kidding. That is definitely Ronald Reagan!
the angle ...i.e. perpective of the fae in that photo makes it difficult to tell
the build is about right...the nose....not likely .
if that had been shot with one of todays high resolution cameras it would have made it a lot easier to “read”
Oh yeah? And who is this?
That’s my barber!
Putin is (in terms used in Cleveland in my youth) a “Slavic slopehead”
Camera guy has a lot of hair, but his skull looks more vertical. Perspective may vary though...
Even accounting for the pin-cushion distortion effect of the camera, the general aspect of the jaw and chin with respect to the nose makes it very questionable, IMO.
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