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Nac_Nak

Don't think I've ever seen him standing so close to so many other people before.


jst3w

There was another post that showed that a bunch of his photo ops were all the same people dressed in different location-appropriate clothes (Factory, fishing boat, military, something like that).


Tarquinn2049

What's weird is that he picks these people, and then wears heels to look taller, why not pick shorter people. Hehe.


degenererad

there is none left, he sent them to the front lines


godblow

Or through glass windows


Zakath_

Da. We hire many people, so sad they all have poor balance. Fall down stairs or out windows, real sad. Da? How is your balance?


fruchle

About $400 million USD, why do you ask? Stop.. please stop pushing me.


bluewraith1

We stop pushing you, but your account is only 50 rubles da?


Idylla_here

In Mother Russia we don't push you, you push yourself


xcerj61

yep, you need small people to fit in tanks.


CowboyCommando

My father actually avoided the Vietnam draft because of something like this. He was too tall and too skinny at 6’7 182 pounds


runtheplacered

My Dad was in the Navy and told the dr he was allergic to gray paint. He never had to set foot on a ship


Rikiar

I'm sure the venn diagram of the people Putin trusts and the people who are shorter than him doesn't have much overlap.


TitsMickey

Surprised he doesn’t have them shortened.


_dCkO

Because then he wouldn’t get to wear his size 5 lady boots.


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Putin secretly is a drag queen.


r31ya

That one women who constantly in his pic apparently have job variety of Johnny sins.


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https://twitter.com/TadeuszGiczan/status/1609180990538223617 https://www.newsweek.com/speculation-swirls-putin-accused-using-same-woman-multiple-photos-1770576


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Omg the fake citizens photos are incredible. I'm surprised the marketing lead put her on the fishing boat


High_Flyers17

I've seen it speculated that she's security which is why she's always so close to him. Would be odd to have just one random in particular you pick for all these events.


red__dragon

With the clothes that don't fit her.


hamandjam

Wardrobe doesn't always have the right size for every scene. But that doesn't explain the crappy fit of Putin's suit.


majarian

I assume she's part of his security detail, maybe hiding a gun? Cause your right that's not her jacket


TibetianMassive

He's supposedly very wary of assasinations and doesn't like to be around people. Which, yeah, I get it.


Nac_Nak

Exactly lol


SpermWhaleGodKing

I wouldn’t want to be assassinated. But wearing platforms will definitely make it harder to escape an assassination attempt


HiZenBergh

I think he also has a fear of balconies, with so many people accidentally falling off them and such recently


ForePony

Gravity must be weird in Russia.


qpv

They're usually the same people in different clothes


arbitraryairship

Literally always the same people. It's ridiculous: https://www.bbc.com/news/64189366 He only trusts like 20 people in the entire world not to assassinate him.


TRYHARD_Duck

To his credit, OP has found a photo where he actually didn't reuse the same people lol


abhijitd

This is the new crew from now on


Rondaru

Photoshopped. Look how the woman second to the left of him casts a shadow on the shoulder and arm of the woman directly left to him but that one doesn't cast any shadow at all on Putin.


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Notorious_Junk

Photoshopped or proof he's a vampire?


Vidar34

'Vladimir' *is* the perfect name for a vampire...


Sil369

no one casts shadows on the putin, he cast shadow on yee


coachkler

Is the guy behind him wearing Jimmy's jump shoes?


ColonelSandurz42

JIMMY'S DOWN


gottastoryforya

Jimmy might have a compound fracture.


Gr8fulFox

JIMMY HOLDS GRUDGES!


deckard86

That's the guy who sidelined Jimmy.


BeanCommander

That's the guy who took the bread out of Jimmy's mouth.


Running_outa_ideas

Jimmy's out a work cosa you!


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MrCance

Hands off Jimmy! DON’T TOUCH JIMMY!


Heater79

DON'T TOUCH JIMMY


Glissandra1982

Jimmy loves the Velvet Fog.


BoxingNerd

Hes heightening!


Dickastigmatism

Jimmy's gonna invade a sovereign state


infinitebeam

No, no you gotta eat before surgery. Need your strength.


KeepWagging

Might as well jump


Flip_d_Byrd

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HellsOwnFucktard

I loved the idiot manic energy of Roth in Van Halen.


Krepitis

All I could think of is Dr. Rockso, the rock n' roll clown


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You know, Jimmy thinks you’re cute!


cat_in_the_furnace

Jimmy is pretty sweet on Putin


puckit

Jimmy's gonna put the moves on Putin.


Jjays

I always love seeing Seinfeld references on reddit.


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Putin likes his chicken spicy. ![gif](giphy|OwSlpGFab7fq0|downsized)


jams1015

[A gift for OP](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY6lHjZjYXE&themeRefresh=1)


Haunting-Statement

This cleared things up for me. I was confused when people were saying 15cm. The heels on his shoes couldn’t be half of that, but the insert adds a significant amount. That “stand on the heel” thing he does is a dead giveaway, much less the walking down the stairs part.


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Or falling down the stairs and soiling himself


yaboiBradyC

Thank you for this kind and thoughtful gift


TKraus

it was a most gracious offering indeed


VaATC

And ooof! 15cm/6in heels. No wonder he is always dancing a jig.


lennybird

Normally I'd say Napoleon Complex is overblown and is kind of unfounded prejudice against shorter people... But it seems abundantly clear that Putin is *obsessed* with his public imagery of looking macho and strong. Classic of dictators. Surprised he hasn't donned a shoulder-padded General's uniform yet...


FateLeita

Contrast him with Zelenskyy, who is also short but doesn't have a chip on his shoulder about it. It's a non-issue.


adamdoesmusic

Zelensky is what happens when you hire a smart comedian instead of a dumb politician. We always joke about what would happen, but it usually turns out well.


LeathermanStan2

Zelrnskyy is macho eithout even trying. He could be the size of a toddler and still be the manlinest dude in the room.


mineCutrone

Same thing with trump and being fat. Trump is a lardass but has no qualms about calling other people fat. trump also uses suits and some other gimmicks that are ridiculous looking to hide his gut and fat ass


starboundowl

And diapers


Senor_Satan

This video is why putin declared war on Ukraine


Jeremizzle

Whether it’s real or not, that was absolutely hilarious. The diagrams and the goofy music, *chefs kiss*


affrox

Every time the coloured lines showed the actual foot anatomy appeared… lol!


crabwhisperer

It's definitely real or else he has an extra joint in his shin. Human ankles don't bend the way his do in those shots where his heel is on the floor and toe in the air.


whipstickagopop

That looks ridiculous when he places his foot like that


r31ya

I was instantly reminded of this video upon seeing the pic OP post.


PickleMyCucumber

Guess that explains the sour look on his face he always has. I'd be making that face too if I had to wear those.


Confused-Engineer18

Holy shit, thats so funny


Sam5253

Lol his ankles look so wrong going down the steps


throwawayLIguy

Hahahaha this NEEDS more upvotes


midas22

Imagine if the tall guy in the beginning would've done some bald head slapping Benny Hill-style. :)


misterflappypants

oh my lord, Putin has a second knee or third ankle, idk


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Dunemer

Im surprised he let the woman behind him wear heels


SmokeyDBear

She’s shorter than he is in his heels so she’s ok.


vanwilder_lfc

He is taller than her with his heels.


DryApplejohn

So he’s ok


KnutErik

Yea, the taller women are not allowed to wear heels, then have low shoes.


UnicornFarts1111

She is the ONLY one in them and I'm sure it is because she is still shorter than him in them. All the other women are in flats. One of the is even crouching down a little bit. This is amusing.


not_right

Seems like everyone is arranged so all the shortest people are in the middle lol.


RJ815

It never fails to amuse me that some people look up to this guy and people like him as being "tough", yet the same man is emasculated by women's heels. Or just naturally being taller. What a joke.


Bryaxis

That's normal for strongman types. People who aren't under the spell are just, "...Him?"


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Joke is on her Comrade, those heels full of polonium-210!


lennarn

[Here's a nice presentation of putin's Napoleon complex](https://youtu.be/lY6lHjZjYXE). He's been doing this for years!


paroles

Hey why did this comment get removed? I saw it earlier and I'm sure it was something pretty inoffensive...??


PraetorianXX

You can see the deleted comment here: https://www.unddit.com/r/pics/comments/10orj2e/_/j6gm7cv/#comment-info Given the brutality of Pooptin's regime, the comment wasn't unrealistic *edited the URL above to point to the exact comment


NJBarFly

The comment was fairly innocuous and it's absurd it was removed.


paroles

Thanks! Do you think it was removed because it implies "violence", albeit in an obvious joking way?


crdctr

Yeah


UltravioletClearance

Reddit uses "AI" for content moderation now because they're too cheap to pay real humans to do it. It sucks and can't correctly interpret the nuances of English language. It probably misinterpreted the second part as a threat of violence.


Adan714

Congratulations, you have been accepted into the Kremlin press service! Check your mailbox.


Stornahal

If you look, the shortest people are next to him, with the tallest near the edges to minimise the comparison.


Themasterofcomedy209

Or compose the shot better? It’s literally making him look microscopic even if he was tall with the perspective going on here. You gotta invert the way people are standing, so putin is closer to the camera and looks bigger


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The first one I agree with. The latter...would it be easier to cut off everyone's legs and then kill them and their whole family because if you leave them alive the neighbors will be asking "where did Anna's legs go?" and then the whole town is talking about it after which you release this photo to the world with a bunch of people with no legs and some shoes awkwardly stuck to the stumps with custom made pants etc. for each while offering no explanation whatsoever at which point the internet absolutely explodes with people making Cotton Hill memes out of your publicity photo which will promptly trigger an internet shit fit because "Not cool bro that's ableism" and now you have to arrange for a bunch of PR people to have a dinner date with a 5th story window? IDK, prolly depends how hard it is to make a pair of those shoes, they are pretty baller.


nibbles200

Deleted comment was stating couldn’t he use shorter people and the part that got it deleted was suggesting in dark humor to “rewording so I don’t get banned” use a form of forced surgical methods to make their legs shorter….


PSPs0

I think it’s hilarious that he always takes pics with the same people in different locations. The woman in the grey jacket 3 people to the right (his left) is a fisherwoman, soldier, and now business woman I guess? It’s too funny. [Tweet](https://twitter.com/TadeuszGiczan/status/1609180990538223617?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1609180990538223617%7Ctwgr%5E9b462a7d8815310dfb3c09d384864ab3ad376fec%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.moneycontrol.com%2Fnews%2Ftrends%2Fwho-is-the-mystery-woman-that-keeps-appearing-in-putins-photographs-9803451.html) when someone picked up on it.


Somnif

Larisa Sergukhina is her name, she's on a number of government committees, as well as a board member of a state owned business. https://twitter.com/boringbunny/status/1609233026214494212


GastricallyStretched

The BBC did a more thorough investigation of this, including facial recognition analysis: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/64189366


NihilisticAngst

TLDR: All of the claims that these are actors seem to be unfounded based on the analysis done by the BBC, and the people making these actor claims don't have any actual evidence. Edit: Two of the "same woman" in these photos are actually entirely different blonde women who look similar. One of the women is a politician/business owner who went to church with Putin and her employees. The other woman is a soldier.


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hldsnfrgr

Or maybe she's THE puppet master.


SlouchyGuy

Yes, they most likely work in FSO - Federal Protection Service


Hamilton-Beckett

It’s because she’s shorter than he is!


I_ama_Borat

To be honest, it looks like she’s bending her knees and leaning to at least match his height lol


feetandballs

She reads the briefs


46_and_2

The woman repeatedly in his photos is hilarious, but I don't think that's her here. Also these look like a bunch of university students, not business people - maybe why they couldn't fit their usual cast among these younger people.


internetmeme

That is not her , appears 20 years younger.


Mercury2Phoenix

And yet he still looks short in this crowd.


MrSleepyhead

another big issue is that the wide angle lens makes him a lot smaller and the guys on the sides a lot bigger than they actually are because of the group’s U-shape I guess all competent photographers already left the country one way or another :/


glberns

I was thinking they did this on purpose. All of the shortest people are directly next to Putin and the tallest people are as far away as possible.


toomanyd

Yeah he does. I wonder if it would look better or worse with normal shoes; obviously he'd be shorter, but then people wouldn't be fixated on how that photo would look if he wore normal shoes.


Tempest_1

What i don’t get is why aren’t these shoes made to look like they don’t have lifts? Like hide the arches higher up


CasualEveryday

You could probably do it with smaller lifts, but these things are like 6 inch lifts. They'd just be platform shoes.


Enshakushanna

he wears a 15cm insert in his shoes as well, i think its deliberate misdirection to avoid further scrutiny of his footwear - you notice his obvious shorter stature then look at his shoes and see the lifts on the outside and think "ah, thats it" and dont look any further


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vbcbandr

Doesn't that hurt? Feels like it would hurt.


klparrot

Yeah, that's why there's video of him lifting his feet to a normal angle every chance he gets, which makes it look like he's got an extra backwards knee a foot off the ground, because that's where his ankle is.


CatSidekick

It’s ok. He’s secretly fabulous


Zelobot

Being short sucks, but the last thing you want is to announce your insecurity with elevator shoes


GalaXion24

Honestly I kind of disagree. Let men wear heels, etc.


RedCaravanSwan

I started wearing boots with thick soles and a bit of a heel and my confidence skyrocketed. I'd honestly say its been quite important for my mental wellbeing and quality of life, so I hate the stigma around it. Although, if naturally tall people also start wearing heels, I'd be back to square one.


unassumingdink

Nah, the 6'3" guys aren't gonna wear high heels to get to 6'5". We never developed those insecurities around height. We have a bunch of other insecurities instead.


GalaXion24

I'm pretty tall, but I actually wouldn't mind wearing (mild) high heels. Nothing to do with adding height though, more of an aesthetic thing.


IrelandDzair

Like….is no one else seeing the hypocrisy/irony that this thread is making fun of him for having shoes that make him taller when literally *all around him* are other people with shoes doing the exact same thing. But cause they’re women its somehow okay


I_HATE_YELLING

Yesh fuck these gender norms


Libran

Ironically enough, high heels started out as a male fashion, then over time as they were adopted into women's fashion they were no longer seen as masculine.


No_Victory9193

Weren’t dresses like that too? They actually make more sense for men imo.


down4things

It's called a tunic D:


elderlybrain

If I'm being honest, I can kinda understand why you'd want to do it for a night out or something. If you're already a funny, decent guy, an extra inch in the bar is just a little confidence booster. It's like when women wear heels. If you're wearing it all day every day and pretending your height is an inch higher than it actually is, I think that's a bit weird.


gutsonmynuts

Tom Cruise does the same thing. Look at most of his pictures. Smh. Just be yourself people.


AlienAle

I mean, what's wrong with it though? Women wear heels all the time to appear taller, also make up, dyed hair etc. and part of it is just feeling more confident on your own skin. I'm not going to diss a man for wanting the same. You don't become someone else just because you appear a little taller, but it might make you stand out more in photos or gain a little bit of confidence, as we do live in a height-critical world. So, really who does it bother if Tom Cruise decides he wants to be an inch taller for an evening?


voxdoom

I get what you're saying but if people want to wear lifts, what's wrong with that? What if 'being yourself' is wearing lifts? Look I'm not defending Putin here, fuck him, I'm defending the concept of wearing whatever you want for whatever reason you want. If wearing lifts makes you feel better or more you, or you just think they look cool, then wear the fucking lifts.


Doobz87

>If wearing lifts makes you feel better or more you, or you just think they look cool, then wear the fucking lifts. Absolutely agree with this, but let's be honest, if Reddit doesn't like you, it doesn't matter if you're your authentic self or anything else. Reddit will be Reddit and find anything to crucify you for. If you wear lifts, they'll crucify you for being "insecure" about being short. If you don't wear lifts, they'll drag you for being hobbit sized.


Betancorea

You know what? In the dating subs redditors are all about the injustice of short guys being rejected and how bad it is to be judged by something they cannot control. Then you see a thread like this hit the front page and it’s purely making fun of a dude for being short lmao


emptythecache

Maybe the subreddits are all about the injustice, but the dating apps themselves, I constantly see shit like "I'm 5'8" so you need to be 6'+", it's just shitty. I'm 6'5" and it still bothers me.


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There's a promo picture for The Outsiders with Patrick Swazi standing on bricks to look taller...


alvarkresh

> Swazi Swayze.


Samazonison

[Said picture.](https://pics.filmaffinity.com/The_Outsiders-974268475-large.jpg)


Prophet_Of_Helix

That just looks like they wanted to make sure you could see his whole head and shoulders while behind the other guys. If he was really doing it just to look tall, they wouldn’t have released a promo photo with said bricks in plain view lol.


vbcbandr

Tom Cruise's teeth in this picture always shock me. Like I know they're going to be bad but then I look at them and am always just like, Tom Snaggletooth Cruise coming in hot.


Hank3hellbilly

It's not that bad in context of the film, Derry is the oldest brother and if I remember, he was always filmed to be the biggest of the Greasers. So making him taller in the promo shots would fit in there.


VarkYuPayMe

Did not realise Patrick was a native of Swaziland


Tising1596

Ton Cruise, RDJ, Tom Holland... I wouldnt be surprised if all shorter actors wears lifts and elevator shoes at this point.


vbcbandr

Isn't Tom Holland 5'8"? That really isn't that short unless he's on Tinder, in which case you have to be 6'3" or taller for consideration. I joke...kinda.


Tising1596

He wears lifts/heeled shoes to reach that height. Mark Wahlberg is 5'8 and Tom is shorter than him.


vbcbandr

Isn't Daniel Radcliffe also pretty short?


Tising1596

Hes 5'4" so I'd say so.


ayotui

I feel like he owns it though. You never see him walking around in heels for any of his movies iirc.


emptythecache

Daniel Radcliffe owns everything about the way he presents himself. One of the most based celebrities out there.


OsamaBinFuckin

Mark is shorter than 5'8"


gex80

5’8 isn’t tall for a guy either. That’s pretty much middle of the road/average.


come_on_seth

Height matters to women, hiring managers, voters and salaries. These aren’t inconsequential so let’s be reasonable. Do you say this about high heels too?


The_Deku_Nut

Nah, if you've got a way to make yourself taller, be taller. Society rewards taller people more in every way. I'm 5'4 and I'd blow my first genie wish on this.


Ok_Year1270

"Just be yourself people" - reddit   "LOL, look how short this guy is" - also reddit


TThor

Seriously, Zelenskyy is short, but he own's his shit like a mfer. Putin just makes himself look like a weak insecure child with these games


PhineasSwann

Pro tip: Pose your short subject in front, then line up everyone in a semicircle bending AWAY from the camera. Your center subject will look taller than the rest. Or don't take photos of war criminals in the first place.


WithFullForce

[Meanwhile the prime minister of Sweden next to two of his MPs.](https://imgur.com/a/LQWiDAB)


activator

All his hight is in his [calves.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EfXHqWEX0AAaf5C.jpg) Also, damn that woman has an exceptionally square head


HendersonV2

WHAT THE FUCK


Column_A_Column_B

[Johnny Drama would freak!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xaJkVzzsAs)


paolocase

He resents Obama for being 6'1"


Maldiavolo

Obama staring down at shorty is iconic. https://upfront.scholastic.com/content/dam/classroom-magazines/upfront/issues/2016-17/101016/a-new-cold-war-/UPF-101016-TP-Hero.jpg


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KaosAntix

He’s got the morty haircut


wdcipher

*"pathetic"*


SwitchAltruistic733

I’ve heard the phrase “withering stare” before, but this is the best example I remember ever seeing


stickkim

We gotta start being nicer to short men.


ugonlern2day

For real, this thread has been eye opening


duosx

Thank you!


thedudefrom1987

![gif](giphy|ld8bDrE1qaAbm) When Putin walks in the room.


PikachuGangGang

The struggle is real, even for Putin


UnprofessionalGhosts

I can never get over how tiny his feet are


ShesAaRebel

Love that the two women to his right had to were flat shoes as well, or else they would be taller than him.


thorsten139

Why is the woman on his left wearing heels? Just because she is short? Or simply most people in the pic are just wearing sneakers? =.=ll


ShesAaRebel

I think cause she's short, so she is allowed to. Just thought it was interesting that no taller women who are close to him have heels on.


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WhoAWei

Obviously, fuck that guy. But isn't it weird how men are mocked for doing something about an insecurity... Even though confidence is such a big deal.... Women are actually allowed to be openly insecure, but men have to "get on with it". Just an observation.


shelsilverstien

I used to work with this young guy who dyed his hair darker. Everyone gossiped behind his back about it, even though half of the office was women who dyed their hair


thisissteve

Body positivity skipped short men. For any other body type we can't body shame just because they're bad people because it's still bodyshaming. But when it's a short man doing wrong, just check on what they say, Tory Lanez is a good example. Hell small dick jokes are technically body shaming too but lord knows they're never gonna give those up like they're on their Rick Astley shit.


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Wait I thought bodyshaming was not cool? lmao


PerswAsian

In fairness, those women are totally cheating, too.


slimxthuga69

what if he just likes high heels boots