Are you still interested in the growth of Medvedev and Putin?

The physical growth of a person, as well as the volume of the brain, is by no means an indicator of his abilities and capabilities. The trouble is that if a small woman, like Yanina Zheimo (known for the movie "Cinderella"), is lovingly called a "miniature", for a short man, literature and folk dialects are not appraised of any respectful and affectionate names. Commonly spoken in a variety of offensive nicknames painfully offends male pride.

The boy on the oval

Some time ago, the anecdotal work was extinguished and exaggeratedly exaggerated the theme: "What, in fact, is the growth of Putin and Medvedev?" The seizure behind the rostrum, with which Dmitry Anatolyevich spoke, was by all means marked with a red oval line on documentary photographs and "photographic fires."

Yes, it so happened that the first persons of the state of the Russian beginning of the 21st century are of low growth. So what? A boy with a finger, known to everyone from an old fairy tale, was quite smart and, in terms of ingenuity, gave a head start to his stalwart brethren. It seems that if there is then the slightest prospect of nanotechnology, he would invent Skolkovo! So why study Medvedev's growth in cm if one can assess his political weight, contribute to the advancement of Russian science, culture, improve the way of life of citizens, and many other highly important parameters of a statesman?

"I stood on the shoulders of giants"

These words the great Isaac Newton said about his predecessors, whose works helped him discover the basic laws of dynamics. The first and most important of them was a small man - Robert Hooke. The very one, whose name is known Law of Elasticity. Such a respectful memory "just so" does not remain in science and history.

The low growth of Putin and Medvedev does not prevent them from being giants, on whose shoulders, remembering the expression of P. A Stolypin, Great Russia will stand in the era of great upheavals. The strength of spirit, diplomatic intuition, the ability to rally people around themselves loyal to the Fatherland - these qualities lose the question of the physical growth of the heads of state.

Visual effects

We see the first persons of the country mainly in telecasts, in the photo of professional reporters. It is worthwhile to look closely, and it begins to seem: Medvedev's "relative" growth seems to vary from frame to frame. Optical effects can not just advantageously emphasize the merits of appearance, but make an individual person visually high compared to the environment (this is facilitated by a simple law of perspective, competently chosen angles).

The possibilities of video equipment even without "Photoshop" are very large. There is a known case when an illuminator, who was unsympathetic to the hero of the transmission, made a curly-haired man visually lumpy-bald with a light setting. There are also more close to ordinary people examples: our photos on the document does not always correspond to what we see right before the shooting in the mirror!

Personal photographers of the first persons, perhaps, are given an order to show the growth of Dmitry Medvedev, the second person in the Kremlin tandem, the same as the charismatic leader of the country.

Acceleration waves

At the end of the last century, scientists began to talk seriously about the phenomenon of teenage acceleration: boys and girls achieved much more growth than people in previous generations. The subsequent analysis of historical data made it possible to put forward a hypothesis: the periods of "rises" and "low" replace each other throughout the entire development of mankind. Therefore, one and a half meters tall leaders - Alexander the Great and Charlemagne - did not seem so short on the background of their, in the mass of stocky, contemporaries.

The growth of Medvedev (like Putin, a representative of the post-war generation) in the crowd of people looks small against the backdrop of younger accelerators. Leveling this effect, reporters try to show Tandem most often together, or choose angles with the enlargement of the figures of the President and the Premier, make belt portraits.

So who is still higher?

It is difficult to determine what kind of growth Putin and Medvedev, when they are near. Frequent observation of reports leads to the conclusion: approximately equal.

The more dense figure of Putin: the broad shoulders of the athlete, the low-set head, which, in comparison with the slender Medvedev (whose shoulder line is also omitted, and the head and neck are more elongated in the vertical direction), makes Vladimir Vladimirovich more proportionally folded, and therefore visually High. In fact, Medvedev's growth, according to various sources, is 162 to 172 cm (on average 167 cm), Putin (officially recognized) - 170 cm.

The different heights of the shoe heels combined with the daytime shrinkage of the spine discs (up to 3 cm in any adult healthy male) give an approximate equality of growth effect. It can be argued that Putin on average only slightly exceeds (by 3-5 cm) his "partner in Tandem." Moreover, both of them are low only on the background of the general acceleration of the people and the stereotypes of perception that are rooted in this connection (for example, the growth of Alexander Pushkin, traditionally considered to be small for us, was 164 cm).

Psychology of undersized

The growth of Dmitry Medvedev is often expose the cause of too hasty approval of dubious "great" projects. Such, for example, are rash experiments with the time zones of the country. Indeed, psychologists note the desire for self-affirmation at any cost as a characteristic feature of men of small stature.

Slightly infantile facial expressions, modest civil gestures against Putin's brutal equanimity, a confident security official, reinforce the impression of some "lightheadedness" of Dmitry Anatolyevich.

However, Medvedev's growth, of course, can not be the cause of any "uncontrolled tyranny." The latent "complexes" of the head of state, with a well-established decision-making structure, even if they exist, do not affect the results of the board. Most likely, the reason for the miscalculations are the mistakes of analysts, the silence of real statistics, thoughtless bureaucracy on the ground, after all, the eternal Russian "fools and roads." How much the emperor or the president rises above his people is the latest factor determining our overall success.