My best mate married a Ruskie and has gone all very defensive about Putin. It's very weird
Perhaps we need to ask this young lady?
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/i...dH_PchdRqD-A7c
Ah, yes. Quite. Well, it's just a photo of a young Frau Merkel, got up as a commie. Almost certainly for a fancy dress party.
Or something.
I mean, nobody is seriously suggesting she's a life-long sympathiser and would prefer that the past remain in the past or anything like that.
No.