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Vladimir Putin’s Venetian Origins
The life of Vladimir Putin has always been shrouded in a blanket of mystery. The KGB, daughters, judo, yachts. But there are even those who argue that the Russian president’s family is not originally from Leningrad (today’s St. Petersburg), but from Italy. And precisely of Costabissaraa village of 7 thousand souls in the province of Vicenza.
It was 2005 when the Moskovsky Komsomoletsa popular Moscow newspaper, sent envoys to Veneto to investigate the alleged Italian origins of the tsar. And what emerged was a thunderous investigation entitled: “The family secret“. In Costabissara and its surroundings, in fact, there are about fifty families whose surname is Putin, with one difference, however: the word pronounced with the accent on the letter “i”. The term “putìn” in Venetian means something like “little child” (diminutive of “putèo”) and this case of homonymy, according to local rumors, would testify to Vladimir’s belonging to one of the Vicentine families in question. Furthermore, for the Russians, the phantom Italian origins of the president would justify the passion he has repeatedly shown for Italy, from holidays in Sardinia friendship with Berlusconi.
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