Posted on 03/09/2022 1:06:13 PM PST by nickcarraway
A man who made bank being a dead ringer for Vladimir Putin claims he fears for his life after the Russian president ordered a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Slawek Sobola, 53, has spent the past eight years professionally impersonating 69-year-old Putin — and has traveled to the US, the UK and Hong Kong for special gigs.
Sobola — who hails from the city of Wroclaw in southwestern Poland — told the Daily Star he has earned “good money” parodying the president, but is now concerned that locals will turn on him.
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He could wear a wig...
Longer, darker hair. Add a beard.
He could wear a shirt.
Just try being an Obama impersonator and see what happens.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/896181/putin-approval-rating-russia/
You need to realize, he's only unpopular here.
What we hear, see and read is entirely one sided. It is not unlike Pravda in the former Soviet Union.
Putin actually enjoys a rating with TWICE THE APPROVAL RATING among Russians compared to what Biden has among Americans. Biden would have wet dreams with ratings like Putin has.
For the Russians, Putin is like a Ronald Reagan, national pride, national defense, pushing back on the big guy that has been pushing them around for a while now (that would be us).
LOL
He needs to swell his head up to impersonate the current version.
This Putin rocks!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfzX9uav7yA
The interviews on the street tells a different story. Most were afraid to voice their opinion
Blood on his hands.
“Putin actually enjoys a rating with TWICE THE APPROVAL RATING among Russians compared to what Biden has among Americans.”
Yes, and Russia totally has free elections too. No funny business at all!
All of the Western folks collecting this data say the same thing - Russians like him.
Just because folks here don't like him don't mean others see it that way.
OBL was not a hated guy that everyone saw as a bad guy in Pakistan... He actually enjoyed some supporters there - common people that while not members of his organization saw what they did as right, their cause as noble...
We assume everyone sees it just like us. Not the case.
These are Western firms collecting the data.
Do stupid things get stupid prizes
Grow a full beard. And talk with a Texas accent.
The source says Levada Center, based in Moscow. I don’t doubt that the majority of Russians would tell a stranger conducting a poll that they support Putin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levada_Center
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