Putin told me all his decisions are made in Stalin’s cabinet: former Georgian president

By Gordonua.com
July 24, 2021 Anno Domini
Translated from the Russian

Former Georgian President and head of the Executive Committee of Reforms in Ukraine Mikhail Saakashvili said on 23 July on Ukraine 24 TV channel that Russian President Vladimir Putin once showed him his office, in which the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin allegedly worked earlier.

“When I met with Putin for the first time at an official meeting, he immediately took me to another office and said: ‘This is Stalin’s former cabinet, the official cabinet of former general secretaries, but I moved my cabinet to a small office, because Stalin was modest; he and I have always been in a small office, and I make all my important decisions where Stalin was,'” said the Georgian-Ukrainian politician.

According to him, “Putin is very proud because his grandfather was Stalin’s cook—this is a very significant fact in his biography.”

“He talked about his grandfather endlessly. And Putin kept saying: ‘Here Stalin slept, such a modest sofa; he drank from this teapot my grandfather brought him.’ Yes, what Putin showed me looked modest. He worships Stalin, so that you understand,” Saakashvili explained.

Context:

YALTA, UKRAINE: President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma (R) talks to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin during their meeting in the residence, where in 1943 Russian dictator Josef Stalin meet US President Franklin Roosevelt, in the Crimean resort of Yalta, 23 April 2004. Putin and Kuchma are expected to exchange ratification documents on the treaty defining Russia and Ukraine’s rights on the use of the Azov Sea and the Kerch strait, whose status sparked a furious row between Moscow and Kiev last year. (ALEXEY PANOV/AFP via Getty Images)

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