Putin Says He Gave Order to Shoot Down Plane in 2014

[Stuart G]

Source: CNN

CNN) — Russia's Vladimir Putin ordered the downing of a passenger plane that had reportedly been overtaken by hijackers planning to target the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi in 2014, the President said in a new film.

In a two-hour documentary titled "Putin" that was posted on social media on Sunday, the Russian President said he was told about the impending attack moments before the Games were due to start.

But the threat turned out to be a false alarm, Putin said, and the plane was not shot down.

The documentary's release comes amid a wave of flattering pre-election coverage of the President, and details moments intended to show off Putin's heroism. In addition to the episode with the plane, Putin also said in the film that his helicopter reportedly came under fire over Chechnya in 2000, according to the state-run Sputnik news agency.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/12/europe/putin-sochi-passenger-plane-intl/index.html

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. He is like trump, NOTHING he says EVER can be taken as truth. You must assume

every word out of his fucking murderous mouth is a lie.

Is he telling the truth here? Who the fuck knows, since he NEVER tells the truth or hardly ever, like his little puppet.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. Riddle: What is the difference between Putin and tRump?

Putin knows when he is lying.

[lagomorph777]

14. Same as the difference between my boss and me?

He's my boss?

[eppur_se_muova]

2. *SIGH* PSA -- "overtaken" and "taken over" are not the same thing.

"Overtaken" would mean they caught up with the plane.

[/grammar_Nazi_mode]

[FSogol]

3. LOL, maybe the highjackers ran past the plane.

[IronLionZion]

5. Did a Russian make the statement?

Grammar makes little to no sense to people who learned English as a second language.

Or CNN's editors have gotten sloppy

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. CNN's editors (and many others) have gotten sloppy.

Even if it derived from something an English-as-Alternate-Language (EAL) user stated, it should have been paraphrased in a grammatically correct way to avoid cognitive dissonance in the readers' minds.

[IronLionZion]

12. Make Journalism Great Again

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. +1

The grammar_Nazi tag is counterproductive. (I know you are joking.) Outside of a joke, only people who want themselves or others to be ignorant apply it.

[Iggo]

4. A thing didn't happen and I ended up not doing anything about it.

Thanks for the update, Pootie.

[C Moon]

6. I'm sure that film will make all the Trumpies feel better about themselves

fucking traitors—all of them.

[Marcuse]

7. I thought this was about the plane shot down in Ukraine.

[lagomorph777]

15. Me too - same year I believe.

Maybe they shot the wrong one?

Or he's totally full of shit as usual?

[Nitram]

11. That's "heroism"?

[marble falls]

13. Its like they're both living lives with the intention of writing the autobiography of and....

controlling all the biography for.

When they pass on they will provide for more television programing than anyone could possibly binge watch in a life time. Someday old men will tell kids how he "remembers way before Donald Trump."

I have a dream.