Monday, July 18, 2011

Female 'Putin Army' Tearing Off Their Clothes as Sign Of Support

I couldn't go with the original headline for the same reason that I don't do the Cavaliers and Roundheads wordplay when discussing circumcision. I prefer to tell jokes that my friends will get.
From the Independent:
 A new model army tears its clothes off for 'amazing' Putin 
Young women across Russia have been called on to show their support for Vladimir Putin in an unusual way: by ripping off their clothes. The unexpected campaign has been launched by a group calling itself the Putin Army, which posted a slick video online at the weekend featuring a trio of young women announcing a competition.
Diana, one of a new army of female Putin supporters
Young women across Russia have been called on to show their support for Vladimir Putin in an unusual way: by ripping off their clothes. The unexpected campaign has been launched by a group calling itself the Putin Army, which posted a slick video online at the weekend featuring a trio of young women announcing a competition.

"I'm just crazy about a man who changed our country," says a voiceover, as we see "Diana" walking through Moscow, while the camera frequently hovers over her sizeable bust. "He's a great politician, and an amazing man. He's Vladimir Putin," she says, adding that despite the millions who admire him, there are some who "pour dirt on him, maybe because they are scared of him, or because they themselves are weak". 

Later in the video, Diana meets two nubile friends sunbathing by the riverbank, and they daub "I'll tear [clothes off] for Putin" onto skimpy T-shirts in red paint. The video ends as they rip the T-shirts off. They ask other "young, smart and beautiful" girls to "tear off something for Putin" and post a video of it online. The best entrant will win an iPad. It is unclear who is behind the Putin Army, but the video is professionally produced, and bears the hallmarks of one of the pro-Kremlin youth organisations such as Nashi....MORE 


HT: one of our hyperintelligent readers.
See also:
Nice Shack: "RuLeaks posts photos of alleged 'Putin Palace'"
Hands on Management: "Putin puts out two wildfires in central Russia"

No word on whether Vlad's alleged girlfriend, 26-year old Alina Kabaeva has joined up.