VLADIMIR PUTIN AGAIN AVOIDS DIRECT ANSWER TO QUESTION ABOUT HIS FAITH IN GOD
During "Direct Line with Vladimir Putin" on 7 June, the Russian president again avoided a direct answer to a question from one of the Russian citizens about his faith in God. "This is a very intimate question, and it is difficult to talk about it in public," Putin declared. "In my view, each person is born with faith in God in his soul. Only different people begin to understand this in different times and under different circumstances.
Putin cited the example of the Great Patriotic War, "when even inveterate atheists got up from the trench and went on the attack," NTV quoted him. "I am sure that each of them thought about God at that time," the Russian president continued. "There are people who understand this without any extreme situations, but it is just when a person falls into such a situation, almost everyone thinks about it."
Putin's answer to a question by CNN journalist Larry King at the very beginning of his now almost twenty-year rule of Russia received wide fame: to the direct question "Do you believe in God?" he answered, "I believe in man." (tr. by PDS, posted 8 June 2018)
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