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In an interview, Putin claimed that his grandfather, Spiridon Putin, worked as a chef at Lenin and later Stalin’s dacha. Is there any evidence to support this claim? What do we know about Spiridon?

by /u/No-Recording2937 in /r/AskHistorians

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