Both "orders" fulfilled: that Putin promised his father before death

To spread: Russian President Vladimir Putin, during his last conversation in the hospital with his deadly father in the summer of 1999, gave him two promises and made them both. Vladimir Putin Sr. died at the age of 88 from cancer in August 1999. Before his death, he asked his son for two things he had to do, heading the state. About it reports Bild with reference to the episode from the book "The king of his own person: how Vladimir Putin deceived us all" Roman Badanin and Mikhail Rubin.

According to informants in the policy environment, Putin-Sr. dreamed that Crimea once again became Russian, and still sad for the old anthem of the Soviet Union, abolished after the collapse of the USSR. As for the Crimea, during the Second World War, Putin's father, then the factory worker was called to the fleet and served for several months on the submarine of the Black Sea Fleet, in Sevastopol.

Later, his son showed a photo of his father in the sea form and - as if inadvertently - mentioned the connection of his father with Sevastopol in the article before the first anniversary of the occupation of Crimea. As for the second wish, the abolition of the new anthem of the Russian Federation was one of Putin-President's first steps, despite the disagreement of his predecessor Boris Yeltsin.