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Putin Reportedly Used To Be A Stunt Double In The 70s For Russian Movies

Russian President Putin delivers a speech at the Railway Congress in Moscow

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Jena Greene Reporter
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Vladmir Putin — the dark overload of the far east — just got even more dangerous.

Not only are we supposed to believe he hacked the 2016 election all by himself but he was also apparently a stuntman in 1970s action movies.

He took up the gig to earn a few extra bucks while he got himself through college. His friend and colleague Vasily Shestakov says he and Putin played action characters in three different movies,  Shestakov — now President of the International Sambo Federation — says he and Putin played German soldiers together.

“We were in ‘Izhora Batallion’ and ‘Blockade’ together. We were paid good money for that time. I was paid 110 rubles ($1.87 U.S. dollars) a month in my engineer’s job, but when I was working on movies, I made 75 rubles ($1.28 U.S. dollars) a day. That was a lot of money.”

Just imagine what Putin might have done with 100 rubles. Maybe he bought a floppy disk for his future hacking endeavors? Or a razor so he could shave his immaculately bare chest?

Apparently, athletes were sought out for stunt double gigs in 1970s Russia because they were more agile and comfortable doing heavy action scenes.

I know this whole Russian president thing is working out pretty well for Putin, but if he ever wanted to dip his toe back into the acting world, I hear there’s a growing need for shady men in Hollywood.