There's a long history of closeted gay fascist homophobia. Remember the Austrian neo-fascist leader, Jorg Haider, who turned himself into a Darwin Prize by wrapping his car around a tree driving in a mad hysterical dash to his secret lover? (Sometimes there's justice in the world).

Watch the 1969 movie The Damned and its portrayal of the Nazis' repressed homosexuality and pedophilia that manifested itself in male-bonded sadism.

Putin, with his bare-chested macho narcissism, would certainly fit right in with this crowd.