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A WOMAN who claimed for decades to be Vladmir Putin’s real mum has died in poverty aged 97, it was revealed today.
Vera Putina swore Russian tyrant Putin was born to her from an affair with a married man – a version of history that has been totally shunned by Mad Vlad.
But she went on to produce pictures of her son as a boy bearing an uncanny resemblance to the hollow-eyed monster now reaping carnage in Ukraine.
Vera, from the dirt-poor village of Metekhi in the former Soviet state of Georgia, claimed the Russian president is the unhappy little boy she gave away at the age of 10.
Her intriguing account also details his traumatic childhood – which may go some way to explain the brutal psyche of the Kremlin kingpin.
An exclusive Sun interview given before her death also lays bare her heartbreak that the man she was so proud of was too cold to acknowledge the hidden truth.
And she went to her grave this week having had no contact for 60 years with the man she claimed to love.
Her account is at odds with Vlad’s official story – which states his parents were Vladimir Putin Snr. and Maria Shelomova.
And her account has never been categorically proven.
Sources in Georgia confirmed yesterday that Vera died of “old age” in the capital Tbilisi and was buried in her native Metekhi on Tuesday.
The tiny retired engineer claimed little Vlad – who she nicknamed Vova – spent his early childhood in the village from when he was two-and-a-half.
And she told how her son’s early years were scarred by terror, abuse and neglect at the hands of his stepfather Georgi after she married.
At the age of 10 she told how her sad-eyed son was sent back to his grandparents in Ochyor, Russia, and never came back..
Records unearthed in the archives of Metekhi’s closest town, Caspi, show a Vladimir Putin was registered at Metekhi school from 1959 to 1960 and was born Georgian, not Russian.
Vera’s account is at odds with the official version of 70-year-old Putin’s childhood, which says he was born in 1952 in Leningrad – now St Petersburg – and was the third son of a Russian couple.
His brother Albert, born in the 1930s, died in infancy and his other sibling Viktor, born in 1940, died of starvation in 1942 during the Siege of Leningrad, according to Putin’s official account.
But suspicious holes in the timings given have added weight to Vera’s claims that their leader is two years older, illegitimate and not Russian – which have always been vehemently denied by the Kremlin.
Vera told The Sun in one of her last interviews: “My dream is not to die without Vova seeing me and talking to me at least once.
“I often see him in my dreams, but he doesn’t want to talk to me. Both in life and in dreams, he is upset about what I did, he cannot forgive me”.
Telling of how her son’s childhood trauma forced on him by his stepfather, Vera said: “He didn’t beat Vova, but he didn’t hide his dislike towards him.
“He’d often threaten that he’d kick “the bastard” out of his house.
“The day would go by without him saying a word to the child. Vova was suffering, and hated him, but he was also afraid of the man and didn’t dare to raise his voice.
“He’d often kick Vova out of house during winter, barefoot, and then it was up to kind neighbours to shelter him.
“When my husband, his step-father, was dying, he had visions that Vova was back.
“His last words were: “Ask that little Russian boy standing in the corner to come over and sit and eat with us”.
Vova was a quiet boy, a thoughtful little kid
Vera
“He couldn’t stand seeing Vova at the table, so he’d often eat alone.”
Vera told how her cowed son became cold-hearted and introverted as his childhood torment continued and began taking his pain out on animals in the rural village.
She said: “Vova was a quiet boy, a thoughtful little kid. I still keep the sling he made to shoot at neighbours’ chickens.
“They weren’t too thrilled about that though and often complained.
“Despite being quiet, he was very competitive and short-tempered, he couldn’t stand anyone from his peers being better than him at anything – be it fishing, or wrestling.
“He always had to beat others and wouldn’t rest till he’d have done just that – gone one better than somebody else did.
“But despite that, he hated bullying and never had any serious fights with his classmates, always tried to be a good friend.”
Vera told how her boy’s tough time in her care ended after she fled his drunken stepfather to her parents in Russia.
She told The Sun: “My husband was a quarrelsome man, liked to pick fights, drank a lot and was something of a womaniser as well, although he loved me.
“Ours was not a quiet home because of this. Vova saw all this, saw the disrespect towards me, but was too afraid to say anything and to stand up to his stepfather.
“After yet another spat with my husband at home, I left the house and went back to my parents, together with Vova and the daughter I had with Georgi.
“After we reconciled, I returned, but without Vova – my parents didn’t want to give him back – said they would take good care of him.
“That’s the last I saw my boy. This will be my biggest regret till the day I die, that I let my little boy be taken from my arms.”
Vera said her son was never returned because her Russian father was furious that she had married a Georgian.
She said: “They never forgave me for it – I didn’t go to Russia when my father died, but I went when my mother did – in the hope she’d finally tell me where my son was and what happened to him.
“She was on her deathbed and clearly wanted to tell me something, but couldn’t.
“I asked my daughters-in-law, brothers’ wives, if they knew about Vova’s whereabouts, not to hide it from me.
We don’t know, they told me. Only one confessed: I swore to your father that I would never tell you, so I can’t tell you.
“Later I learned my father took him to a military gymnasium (KGB school), saying: I’ve taken him to a place where they will make a real man out of him”.
“I was told that later he became a military man. I am proud…proud that people call him the ‘Little Stalin’.”
Vera claimed Putin’s father was a Russian mechanic, Platon Privalov, who got her pregnant while married to another woman.
She claims her son, nicknamed “Vova” was born on Oct 7, 1950, exactly two years before Mr Putin’s official birth date. In 1952.
She married Georgian soldier, Giorgi Osepahvili, and moved there with her son before delivering him back to her parents under pressure from her husband.
Shura Gabinashvili is a former Russian teacher of the village school in Metekhi claimed to have given the child Russian language classes between 1958 and 1960.
And she claimed she has received death threats since making her claims public.
She said: “He was the shortest child in the class but he always wanted to win at everything.”
Experts in Moscow remain insist Vera’s black and white photograph of her son, aged seven, is not the Russian president.
Dmitry Peskov, Mr Putin’s spokesman, dismissed the claims.
He said: “The story is not true. It does not correspond to reality at all.”
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