Patrick wrote ...

Killa-X wrote ...

Neither are you. As far as I see it, it's a guy looking at two people abou to do a hang shake. What's going on in your mind grenadier? Please tell us :D

I second this oppinion. I thought it was just a pic of politcal cowards at a photo op.

Grenadier wrote ...

EDIT: Is this a younger vlad the impal... Im mean... Vladimere "Radioactive soup" Putin !!! was he not a security officer at this time in the 80's?

The most telling incident was only revealed 20 years later. In the above photo, the man with the camera around his neck standing behind the boy was the current Russian Prime Minister (and former president) Vladimir Putin. He was pretending to be a tourist on his capacity as a KGB agent. On that day, on the Red Square, Gorbachev introduced Reagan to various tourists, who asked the American president pointed questions about subjects such as human rights in the United States. The photographer of this picture, Pete Souza, turned to the Secret Service and commented, “I can’t believe these tourists in the Soviet Union are asking these pointed questions.” The agent replied, “Oh, these are all KGB families.”

Pete Souza is the official chief White House photographer for Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama administrations. The Kremlin, however, had denied that it was Putin.