Vladimir Putin is rumoured to have taken a break from warmongering and visited his mountain palace to ‘bathe in the blood of young deer’. The 72-year-old dictator is said to enjoy using ancient remedies to prolong his life and give him strength, say reports.
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His ‘Flying Kremlin’- equivalent to Air Force One – disappeared from radar screens over Siberia after a flight from Moscow on New Year’s Eve under the calendar used by the Russian Orthodox Church. Two days later the aircraft reappeared in roughly the same location, this time flying back to Moscow.
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Telegram channel ‘More Than Fact’ suggested Putin may have spent time at his sprawling courtyard retreat in Altai. The Siberian palace is reported to have a vast underground hi-tech bunker with its own power station from which he could control Russian in the event of nuclear war.
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It was reported last year that sufficient quantities of food has been stashed here to feed up to 300 people ‘for several years’. The eerie complex includes a maral deer farm where antlers are sawn off terrified Siberian stags so Putin and his inner circle can take blood baths, according to previous investigative reports.
The ancient tradition is seen as a testosterone-driven elixir to improve male potency, but also as bringing multiple health benefits and slowing the ageing process. Putin was seen in videos released by the Kremlin during the period he was supposedly away, but they may have been pre recorded, or in Russian parlance ‘canned’, to be used during the ruler’s secret vacations.
