SOCHI, RUSSIA? President Vladimir Putin responded to criticism about the ability of his nation to property secure the upcoming Winter Games by picking up a rifle and doing something about it.
“I’ll handle this,” Putin said to reporters while wielding a tactical assault rifle and wearing camouflage.
History is on the controversial leader’s side. The last time a sitting Russian president saw military action was in 1945, when Josef Stalin personally led a brigade of Soviet troops in the successful defense of Moscow in World War II.
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