Joe wrote:I tried to get a copy of that book and the page about his mother was removed. So we would need a first edition and then we could close the door on putin for good. If it was indeed true. But I am sure it is something that would mainly concern WN and not us.
As I've pointed out before, White Nationalists suffer from this mistaken idea that someone who betrays the White race must somehow be a crypto-jew. Their "research" to prove someone's alleged jewish background is often shoddy and heavily relies on innuendo, and this "diggerforthruth" guy is no exception. I have found many of this articles wanting in conclusive facts to back up his shaky ideas.
I'm not here to defend Putin, but rather to make some important points in logic. Even if the first American edition of Putin's book does show the alternative spelling of his mother's name, it proves nothing. I've collected rare first edition books for 30 years, and what often makes them valuable is that they contain errors that escaped the editor's and proofreader's attention. These errors are called "errata". And most of them are honest errors.
So even if the spelling in the first edition was different--or more jewish--it doesn't necessarily follow that the original was correct. After all, the English version is a translation from the Russian, and the English translators (from the Cyrillic alphabet) could have made the spelling error in the first edition that was later spotted and corrected.
That said, it would be far more conclusive if you could get your hands on the first Russian edition of Putin's book, and look for the spelling of his mother's name--and then check that spelling against later Russian editions to see if that, too, was changed. If it was changed in the second Russian editions, you
might have a better case that something in Putin's family ancestry has been intentionally obfuscated.