Vladimir Putin’s brute father gouged out his mother’s eye with a pitchfork 'in a fit of rage', new book claims

UK Mail ^ | 10 August 2025 | WILL STEWART

[dennisw]

Vladimir Putin's father gouged out his mother's eye with a pitchfork, it was revealed.

The violent attack came when his mother Maria was just 17 and as a result of the incident in which she lost her eye, Vladimir senior was ordered to marry her.

The attack was 'in a fit of rage' according to independent news outlet Proekt.

The bizarre story has emerged as a new book - The Tsar in Person. How Vladimir Putin Fooled Us All - details the Kremlin despot's life, and was highlighted by Proekt.

Putin's father arrived with male friends when Maria - known as Marusya - was home alone in her village in Tver region in 1928.

'Marusya didn't want to let them in,' said an account by villager Anfisa Kormilitsyna.

This apparently enraged Putin's father.

'They took the pitchfork that was standing by the fence and started breaking down the gate.'

'She got scared, ran out of the house, and raced up to the fence.

'And Volodka [Vladimir senior, Putin's father] at that moment broke through the gate with the pitchfork and hit Marusya right in the face.

'In short, he accidentally gouged out her eye.

'He took her to the hospital right away.

'There, Marusya's eye was removed.

'For a girl in those days, this was a disgrace: who would marry a defective woman?

'So Marusya's mother threatened Volodka: if you don't marry, I'll put you on trial.

'So they got married.

'Marusya was very embarrassed about her glass eye later, never looked you in the face when talking, and tilted her head to the side.'

She revealed Putin's wild father was notorious for terrorising teenage girls in his village.

'He liked to lift up girls' skirts and tie them in a knot over their heads,' said Anfisa.

[EnderWiggin1970]

He doesn't look worried. He looks bored/cynical.

This may amaze the Zeeper crowd, but I hold Russia to be on the wrong side of every geopolitical issue I can think of (the Sahel, Korea, China relations, Myanmar, Israel, Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua just offhand). But they are absolutely in the right on Ukraine. Making up weird nonsense about their leader just beclowns Zeepers.

[Albion Wilde]

He doesn't look worried. He looks bored/cynical.

Don't play any poker games, then.

Just so you know, I am not "for" either side of that conflict, except the side that effectively reduces U.S. financial outlay.

[Albion Wilde]

Not a zeeper. Just interested in human nature and folly.