1.This is a Russian Matryoshka doll, widely available online, that I picked up on Red Square, Moscow several years back. I found it utterly bizarre that the world's No 1 enemy would feature on a doll being sold right outside the Kremlin.
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2. To suggest that this doll reflects some sort of affinity to Osama is part of a typically desperate attempt to cherry-pick information to cast bizarre aspersions on NDTV journalists.
3. 'Political' Matryoshka dolls aren't an oddity - they come in several shapes and sizes. This one also features Saddam, a tyrant to the US who was once the recipient of extensive Russian military aid.
4. Similarly, it features a doll of Yasser Arafat, a tyrant to Israel once revered by successive governments in India.
5. It also has a doll of Stalin whose image has been nurtured by the Putin regime though he has been loathed in the past by many in Russia.
6. To be sure, I possess classic Matryoshka dolls as well as also other curios. This one was particularly curious.
7. Our favourite online hate specialists clearly had a lean day this weekend.
8. Abuse in response and get blocked.
9. P.S - I use it as a paperweight.
