Industrial Light and Magic, Google et al could make a virtual Putin today that would fool any online press conference. But I think he’s still around cuz the day he falls, there would be a solemn group of old generals giving the press conference and a state funeral to gin up patriotic support, IMHO
Let us review the words of glorious national anthem:
I drive a traktor on the collective,
Too bad for me that the traktor defective,
Not gonna make the five year plan now,
They say grow turnips, I ask how,
When party calls, tell them I am busy,
drink so much that I get dizzy,
can’t find the time to attend to my work,
Comrade Brezhnev is a jerk, and
So were all the rest, and
so will be all the ones yet to come.