Putin Isn’t Just Insane. It’s Far Worse Than That.

Photo Illustration by Kelly Caminero/The Daily Beast/GettyThe subject is Putin’s brain.Is President Putin clinically insane? Is he choreographing madness and threats of a nuclear holocaust to frighten the West? Or does Putin know precisely what he’s doing? The questions are reasonable, but ultimately unanswerable. There is a data point, however: Russian and German scientists at Moscow’s aptly named Research Institute of the Brain in 1925 sliced and diced 30,953 sections of Vladimir Lenin’s cytoa

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