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The Russian president and the former Italian prime minister were on vacation together in 2013. Vladimir Putin cut out the heart of a deer and served it to Silvio Berlusconi, one of the close allies of the late Italian prime minister confessed in an interview published in the Corriere della Sera newspaper on Sunday.
Former senator from Berlusconi's Forza Italia party, Fabrizio Cicchitto, said the incident happened in 2013 when the Russian president took Berlusconi on a hunting trip while the two were vacationing together at one of his country houses.
"Vladimir showed me a violent nature that I did not imagine in such a kind and rational man ," Cicchitto remembers Berlusconi saying after returning from Russia.
The two men said they were close, with Berlusconi defending Putin even after his all-out invasion of Ukraine, and the Russian president describing the media mogul-turned-politician as a "true friend" after he died in June last year .
According to Cicchitto, Berlusconi accepted Putin's offer to go hunting even though he had never touched a rifle in his life. After entering the forest, the Russian president gave Berlusconi a rifle and they walked together in the snow.
When Putin spotted two deer, he asked Berlusconi to target them.
" This is yours. Shoot ," Putin told Berlusconi, Cicchitto confessed. When the Italian refused, Putin shot both deer and gave him a satisfied look.
Putin then came down the slope, holding a knife. He cut open the deer and took out its heart. He then asked a man from his entourage to give Berlusconi a wooden tray on which he placed the bloody piece of meat, saying it would make an extraordinary meal.
Berlusconi then hid behind a tree to throw him down. The former prime minister, however, defended his friend. " Maybe it's just a hunter's habit ," Cicchitto recalled./ Politico
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