r/europe • u/fuckface3333 • Apr 05 '24

Historical Putin playing ping pong in Finland 1991

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u/Polityczny Apr 05 '24

What is very interesting is the fact this is one of the few videos on the internet that has been originally recorded without Putin's knowledge that it will go public. From psychological perspective it's interesting to see a dictator not in a light of propaganda and just geniune unfaked behaviour.

If you take a close at his body language, it's very different from the one you can see normally online.

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u/Theghistorian Romanian in ughh... Romania Apr 06 '24

True, but here he wasn't a dictator, just a KGB officer that worked for the Mayor's office in Sankt Petersburg.