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Putin says his grandfather cooked for Stalin and Lenin
Vladimir Putin's paternal grandfather worked as a cook for both Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin, the president said in a film posted on the internet on Sunday.
Published : 11 March 2018, 05:32 PM
Updated : 11 March 2018, 05:39 PM
In the two-hour documentary, called Putin, the president said Spiridon Putin was a valued member of Stalin's staff.
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during an interview with NBC's journalist Megyn Kelly at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia March 1, 2018. Picture taken March 1, 2018. Sputnik/Mikhail Klimentyev/Kremlin via REUTERS
The wartime Soviet leader, who died in 1953, conducted extensive purges during his around three decades in power.
"(He) was a cook at Lenin's and later at Stalin's, at one of the dachas in the Moscow area," Putin said in the film seen by Reuters.
Interviewer Andrey Kondrashov, who became the president's election campaign spokesman in January, said Spiridon Putin continued to cook for the Soviet establishment until shortly before he died in 1965, aged 86.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the information in the film was accurate.
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