“Putin already had cancer“. With these words Olivier Stein It adds to a very long line of speculation about the Russian President’s health, which has intensified since he ordered the Russian President’s invasionUkraine. However, the Oscar-winning director, screenwriter and American film producer had absolutely privileged access to the Kremlin chief’s private life. In fact, Stone had traveled to Russia to interview the Tsar for a documentary titled The Putin Interviews. The documentary aired on Showtime in 2017.
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THE INTERVIEW
In an interview on Lex Fridman Podcast Released earlier this week, Stone said: “Putin already had cancer and I think he’s cured. But it was also isolated because of Covid». Stone’s comments come after New Lines magazine reported earlier this month that a Russian oligarch, whose name he did not name, was caught on tape saying the tsar was “very ill with blood cancer”. New Lines had sued the Bellingcat investigator Christo Grozev, who claimed that officials from the Federal Security Service (FSB), Russia’s main security agency, received a warning to dispel rumors about the president’s health. During one of the Oscar-winning interviews for the documentary, Putin also admitted to being a grandfather, a very rare public comment about his personal life. When asked about the reasons that led the tsar to invade Ukraine, Stone told the podcast, “Maybe he’s lost touch with reality, but more importantly with the people.”
Oliver Stone and the War
The director, a Vietnam War veteran, still blames his own country, the United States, for the conflict. In a February statement, he slammed media coverage, which he described as “bloodthirsty”, stating: “You have no evidence that Russia intends to invade Ukraine; I doubt they would do that. I think Russia only deals with the Donbass region”. Today, however, Stone backs down and openly states that Russia was wrong, is wrong and will continue to be wrong if it doesn’t stop this invasion immediately. Here are his new words: “Although the United States has many wars of aggression on its conscience, this does not justify Putin’s aggression in Ukraine. A dozen wrongs don’t make a right. Russia was wrong to invade ».