Putin begins repressions against the FSB 5th Directorate – responsible for supplying him information on Ukraine. Its leadership have been placed under house arrest

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  1. Damn that building has beautiful architecture. Even the streetlights. I wish our stuff looked like that.

  2. Translated last two paragraphs:

    >It was the 5th Service that was responsible for providing Vladimir Putin with information about political events in Ukraine on the eve of the invasion. And it seems that after two weeks of the war, Putin finally realized that he was simply misled: the 5th Service, afraid to anger the leader, simply supplied him with what he himself wanted to hear.
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    >Now our sources report that General Beseda and his deputy have been placed under house arrest. Among the reasons are the misuse of funds allocated for operations, as well as poor intelligence information. And indeed: the intelligence of Putin’s career intelligence officer, as it turned out, was put out of hand very badly.

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    As for Meduza’s sources:

    >Andrey Soldatov and Irina Borogan are journalists and writers, authors of several books about the Russian government and special services. They have been studying the FSB for many years and have an extensive network of sources.

  4. When in doubt, blame your underlings.

    You can take the man out of the soviet, but you can’t take the soviet out of the man.

  5. Sounds like he’s doubling down on one of the most basic leadership mistakes, shooting the messagers. Once people are afraid to tell you the truth, you are blind. You can’t get the information you need to make reasonable choices anymore. Everyone start lying to you all the time out of fear.

    This is leadership 101 shit. Idiot

  6. Literally Stalin 101.

    Shoot or arrest or detain anyone who gives you information against the preconditioned narrative, then when the bubble is popped shoot people who were forced to give you nonsense.

    He’s a KGB agent with no sense of the millions of times he swindled his bosses.

    Typical tyrant with no perspective even through his own experiences.

  7. The US/EU have complex bureaucracies that infuriate many (politicians in US blaming deep state for example). Keeping these organizations as independent of political influence though at least gives Western leaders a major advantage as they don’t just hear what they want to hear and can make more informed decisions.

  8. This is good news. When Putin starts his crack down on this own secret service, we can hope for retaliation to see him become non alive.

  9. This is exactly how USSSR collapsed : terror at every level of adminsitration led people to give false reports on any situation and leading the politicians to take terrible decisions.

    Guess it is also a threat for China.

  10. While i feel zero pity about how they’re going to bite each other now – I actually think such corrupt members of his inner circle are the most likely to try to shoot him. They have access, resources, know exactly what they are risking.
    The info source however is asking for financial support. They’re not being directly paid by any public budget.

  11. Before the war, US warned Russia that Putin was getting wrong intel about Ukraine from his underlings 😀

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