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Lets go back a few years: On the 31st of July 2014 the Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, Dmitry Rogozin, posted a picture on his Twitter account of President Vladimir Putin petting a leopard next to that of U.S. President Barrack Obama holding a small fluffy white poodle, with the caption “We have different values and allies.”
The post, which was meant to be an insult, teasing and questioning the U.S. President’s masculinity, was re-tweeted more than 600 times in two hours.
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