Playboy Interview: Vladimir Zhirinovsky
March, 1995
He was an unknown lawyer from the provinces, a political amateur with a tainted past, living in a country accustomed to grayhaired career Communists who die in office. So, when Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky ran for president in 1991, in Russia's first free elections--promising cheap vodka for men and flowers for women--no one gave his campaign a chance.Then reality hit: The onetime political nobody placed third with 6.2 million votes, behind President Boris Yeltsin and former Soviet Premier Nik...
