Vladimir Putin’s autocracy is on a mission to find love… for psychologically ‘damaged’ soldiers returning from the brutal Ukraine frontline. The plan is for men to be rehabilitated by their wives
Physiologically “damaged” Russian men returning from the Ukraine frontline could be backed by the state to find love. Officials of Mad (for love) Vlad’s autocracy are pushing for a Tinder-style app to ease soldiers back into Moscow’s dating scene.
Boss of the Committee on Families of Soldiers of the Fatherland, Yulia Belekhova, claimed Russia’s fighters need psychological rehabilitation after returning from the front lines. She told the Patriots of the Urals forum on Sunday just who will be responsible for the rehab.
“After all, who is the first psychologist for someone returning from the front? His wife and his family,” she said. “When a man has a good woman by his side, everything works out: rehabilitation, reintegration, finding a job.”
The Kremlin is reportedly concerned about Russian society becoming unstable when hundreds of thousands of shell-shocked soldiers return from Ukraine. It comes as the Russians are developing a new dating app, dubbed the “Orthodox Tinder”.
The software’s aim is to connect “participants of youth events at Orthodox churches across Russia” in the hopes of sparking romantic relations. The app was announced by Maria Lvova-Belova, Russia’s ombudswoman for children’s rights, in July. She is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for the unlawful deportation of Ukrainian children.
Putin might be taking a page out of his personal life, which is reportedly filled with love. The Russian President dropped a cheeky hint about his rumoured young family.
Despite never officially confirming that he has children, he’s said to have with Olympic stunner Alina Kabaeva, who’s 30 years his junior, it appears that Putin might have let slip that they exist. During his end-of-year Q&A event with the world’s media, the Russian President claimed that he enjoys watching fairy tale films with “my little ones,” which was then translated into “my junior family members” by state-run channel RT.
The 72-year-old, when talking about patriotic films, said: “And considering such a unifying uplift of society, the kind of uplift that brings people together, is, of course, very important. Our historic fairy tales and epic tales are being revived. I myself sometimes watch these with pleasure with my little ones.”
A flicker of a smile appeared on his face as he mentioned them. Putin is also known to have grandchildren from his two eldest daughters – Maria Vorontsova, 39, and Katerina Tikhonova, 38, a high-kicking ‘rock’n’roll’ dancer.
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