Russian President Vladimir Putin has a secret fascination with Leo Tolstoy.
As a young KGB agent, he purportedly made a pilgrimage to the Leo Tolstoy Museum and Estate at Yasnaya Polyana. In 2012, he named the writer’s great great grandson Vladimir Tolstoy his cultural advisor. He made War and Peace a prominent set piece in the opening ceremonies at the Sochi Olympics.
But for a guy who says Tolstoy is his favorite writer, Putin is, well, a very bad reader.
Pretty much everything he stands for — authoritarianism and repression at home, aggression and jingoism abroad — are the very …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
