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Hollywood’s Oliver Stone To Putin: I Wish You Were Godfather To My Daughter

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According to a transcript released from the Kremlin, Hollywood film director Oliver Stone, who won an Oscar for “Platoon” and has a long history of leftist rhetoric, spoke with Russian president Vladimir Putin and told him he would have liked him to be the godfather to Stone’s daughter.

The Daily Mail reports that Stone spoke to Putin on June 19 about Putin being the godfather to the children of Ukrainian politician Viktor Medvedchuk, prompting Putin to note that according to Russian Orthodox tradition a person cannot refuse a request to be named a child’s godfather. Stone reportedly responded, “Oh, you cannot refuse it? I thought it was a big honor for you to be the godfather of his daughter. I would ask you to be the godfather for my daughter.” The two men then allegedly discussed the possibility of Stone’s daughter Tara becoming an Orthodox Christian and Stone remarking, “We’ll make her that.”

In the interview published by the Kremlin, Stone is quoted saying: “As you know, I’ve been very rebellious all my life. Still am. And I have to tell you, I’m shocked by some of the behaviors and the thinking of the new generation. It takes so much for granted. And so much of the argument, so much of the thinking, so much of the newspaper, television commentaries about gender, people identify themselves, and social media, this and that, I’m male, I’m female, I’m transgender, I’m cisgender. It goes on forever, and there is a big fight about who is who. It seems like we miss the bigger point.”

In the interview Putin reportedly stated, “When these lands that are now the core of Ukraine joined Russia … nobody thought of themselves as anything but Russians.” He allegedly protested Russia’s innocence in interfering in the 2016 election, asserting, “And whichever our bloggers – I don’t know who works there in the Internet – had expressed their point of view on the situation in the USA in this or that way, this had not been able to play a decisive role. This is nonsense … But we had sympathized with him (Trump), because he said that he wanted to restore normal relations with Russia. What’s bad in this? And of course, we couldn’t unwelcome such a position.”

Near the end of the interview there was this exchange:

Stone: I am very worried about you.

Putin: Why?

Stone: I can see there are so many problems. It weighs you down. It is sad to see. It is a tough situation.

Stone has a history of praising left-wing dictators; in 2013 he said of Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez that he was a “magnanimous, warm, warm man, big man.” He added, “They want him. He’s popular. The people love him. Well, the majority of people, because the living standards have gone up, and that’s what’s ignored in so much of the reporting on Venezuela.” After Cuban dictator Fidel Castro died, Stone lauded him this way: “I saw him as a great leader,” he said. “He fulfilled so much for the Cuban people. He brought them a revolution, which changed their lives, and he fought a giant for 60 years. He symbolizes what independence is.”

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