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BrainBurner  ·  3922 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Putin could speak german fluently?

I'm not going to buy into this Illuminati theory. However, I did read somewhere recently that Putin does not like to speak English when interacting with English speaking diplomats, though he is perfectly fluent in English. I would guess this is because he doesn't want to be seen as conceding to Western influence more than he has to? So perhaps he does the same thing with the German language?