Vera Putina’s Lost Son

Vera Putina’s Lost Son

There are secrets that nobody knows, real secrets. There are secrets that only a few people know. And then there are secrets that really aren't secrets anymore at all, but which are somehow connected to the forbidden. The eavesdropping methods of the East German secret police, the Stasi, are an example of such a dark, yet commonly known, secret.
Everybody in East Germany knew about it, but nobody could talk about it publicly. Something similar appears to apply to Vladimir Putin’s childhood. It seems there is an unspoken, and unproven, secret that is part of his biography.


http://www.zeit.de/feature/vladimir-putin-mother