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Posted on 10/27/2009 11:34:18 AM PDT by george76
A BUST of Russia's muscle-flexing strongman Vladimir Putin is being created as a gift for ex-Hollywood bodybuilder and California's current governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The bust is currently being made in Putin's home city of Saint Petersburg on an order of Russia's Bodybuilding and Fitness Federation and will be delivered to the movie star-turned-politician in March.
"Putin is such a complex personality. He's left no one indifferent," Alexander Chernoshchyokov, a Saint Petersburg-based sculptor who has been working on the Putin bust since June...
In 1991 the Russian artist made a sculpture of Schwarzenegger and Vladimir Dubinin, the president of the bodybuilding federation, personally delivered the gift.
The two Russian men soon learned the Hollywood action hero collected sculptures, Dubinin said.
His collection however lacked figures of Communist-era leaders, so a few years later Chernoshchyokov made the sculptures of Stalin and Lenin.
Capturing Putin's features proved difficult however. "He's changing every day. His features even change during the day," said Dubinin.
Putin, who famously declared earlier this year that he and Medvedev were "of the same blood", hinted earlier this year he might be back in the Kremlin in 2012.
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You never know. Arnold has pretensions to being a world player, I mean, this is an actor we’re talking about. All of them have shameless egos and pretensions.
Putin is tougher than Arnold and a hell of lot smarter. An idiot like the Gubernator would never have survived in Putin’s Russia.
He would have been sent to the gulag for mismanaging a state enterprise
Arnold was a tool for the Kennedy’s to take control over California.
And don’t I know it. I have no idea why, but I don’t think Putin is evil so much as someone who has had to survive and succeed in the environment he lived in. He’s had a lot of tough choices and made them. I plan on reading his autobiography and I’m interested in knowing more on how his mind works.
Over there, politics is chess and so is life.
Will it be a Nude?
“Arnold has pretensions to being a world player”
Well, he’s hit the glass ceiling here in America, where else has he got to go? I’d say he should go back to Austria and become king, or whatever they have. But then he’d be one of 30 or so water-carriers for the EU, so what’s the point?
“I have no idea why, but I don’t think Putin is evil so much as someone who has had to survive and succeed in the environment he lived in”
He’s not just some dude who used to work for the KGB and fell into politics. He’s a Bad Ass Machiavellian with the Eye of the Tiger, for lack of better terms. He’s a power-a-holic statist. Don’t be lulled by his exoticness.
Cool. and aRnie the Term-Limited can send him a bronze cast statue of a Trojan Horse.
Sounds a bit kinky to me, too.
So has Lenin, but he was no complex personality. He said what he would do and did it, and quite single-mindedly at that. It's not Putin's personality but his deeds that don't leave people indifferent.
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