Putin: The Life of a Galley Slave

Putting Gatsby in the shade...

Vladimir Putin.

During a press conference in February 2008, Vladimir Putin equated his work during his first term as President of Russia to that of a “galley slave”, Boris Nemtsov and Leonid Martynyuk report on upnorth.eu.

For those who are unfamiliar with this peculiar choice of analogy: a galley slave refers usually to a prisoner (in the French case) or a slave, who is forced to row a ship in squalid conditions, deep below the decks, in the galley, they wrote.

Whether he succeeded in generating any sympathy among his fellow Russians is anyone’s guess. What is certain, is that many Russian were deeply offended by Putin’s analogy. During his first eight years as President, Vladimir Putin had already amassed a mountain of wealth by any means available, including expropriation, extortion, theft and corruption, they added.

For the first English translation of a Russian report on Putin's amazing life style: http://upnorth.eu/putins-palaces-the-life-of-a-galley-slave-nemtsov/

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