A new book has made shocking claims about Vladimir Putin’s family history. The book says Putin’s father attacked his mother with a pitchfork when she was just 17 years old. This attack allegedly caused her to lose her eye and led to a forced marriage.
The disturbing claims come from a book called The Tsar in Person: How Vladimir Putin Fooled Us All. The book looks into Putin’s life before he became Russia’s leader. It says the attack happened in 1928 in a village in the Tver region, as reported by Express.
According to the book, Putin’s father “accidentally gouged out” his mother’s eye during what is described as “a fit of rage.” A local villager named Anfisa Kormilitsyna told the story of what happened that day. She said Putin’s father came to Maria’s home with a group of male friends when she was alone.
Village witness describes the shocking incident
Kormilitsyna said Maria, who was called Marusya, did not want to let the men into her home. This made Putin’s father very angry. The witness explained that the men took a pitchfork that was standing by the fence and started breaking down the gate.
Maria got scared and ran out of the house toward the fence. At that moment, Putin’s father broke through the gate with the pitchfork and hit her in the face. The villager said he gouged out her eye by accident and took her to the hospital right away. Doctors had to remove Maria’s eye completely.
Будущий отец путина в юности выбил глаз односельчанке. Будущей путинской матери. Причём сделал это вилами. И пришлось жениться. Так семья и жила с памятью об этой драме.
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The book claims this violent incident led to a forced marriage. Kormilitsyna said that for a girl in those days, losing an eye was a disgrace. Maria’s mother threatened Putin’s father, saying she would put him on trial if he did not marry her daughter. So the couple got married. The witness said Maria was very embarrassed about her glass eye later in life and would never look people in the face when talking.
The book also makes other disturbing claims about Putin’s father. Local residents said he was known for terrorizing young girls in the village. One claim says he would lift up girls’ skirts and tie them in knots over their heads so village boys could see their underwear.
These claims go against how Putin has always talked about his parents. He has always said they were good people and great examples. Last year, Putin said he never saw his father drunk and never heard him swear. He said the same about his mother. Putin’s mother was over 40 when she gave birth to him, which has led some people to wonder if he was adopted or born outside of marriage. The writers of the book say Putin has been hiding the truth about his family background. They claim he has created a false story about his parents to make them seem better than they really were, following patterns seen in other wannabe dictators. These new claims, if true, would show a very different picture of Putin’s family history than what he has shared with the public.
