The movie ‘The Death of Stalin’ is pretty well done. It’s a drama/comedy and the interesting part to me is succession.
> According to a mysterious Russian Telegram channel called “General SVR”
You can just stop reading here. This is the channel that’s frequently asserted Putin to be on deaths door and even once that he crapped his pants after taking a tumble down the stairs
Or it’s just another psyop from fsb. Spoof stories that can be later disproved to spread distrust in all information. You can’t believe ANYTHING you hear…so you may as well stop trying.
They’ve been doing that for years.
I’m sure he’s already dead inside. As for whether he’s dead dead, I’ll believe it when we see concrete evidence.
All 4 putins are alive.
Heck, upvote it anyway and cause some chaos. I always said Putin would run with the money and leave the double
I like the aspect that discusses the political power struggle that is beginning whether this fuck is dead or alive. I hope the war ends soon, as this article discussed.
Is this like the dread pirate Roberts of Russia or something?
Sadly, he isn’t.
Alternatively: Putin is trying to pull a Dmitri Ivanovich.
I wish..
Stop posting this garbage please
Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead
I’ll believe it when I see his dead corpse. Though if this were true it would make Russia the second known case of a “necrocracy” after North Korea, as per Christopher Hitchens’ description.
Unless he is literally fucking dead, then yes its greatly exaggerated.
Don’t stop organizing his final resting place though everyone, won’t be long
The west would know of putins death before anyone else. There’s so many spy’s planted in the kremlin.
The original Putin died over 10 year ago.
Putin is no longer a person, but a role.
Every time the Putin dies one of the body doubles becomes the new Putin and a new body double is found.
One day it will be true. That day did not pass yet.
Buuut it also might be 🙄
This is Russian disinfo as also long-practiced on their own population…there is no such thing as ‘truth’ and no one can ever know what reality is
>Russia is a country that lives in contradiction. For example, the president tells us that he is fighting the oligarchs, then awards those same oligarchs with medals ‘For Service to the Country.’ Or the government tells us that prices for consumer goods will not rise, and a month later they double. Or the church teaches us that greed is a sin and ‘it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for the rich to enter the Kingdom of Heaven,’ while the Patriarch rides in a motorcade and befriends the rich and mighty. Or officials tell us that there are no Russian soldiers in Ukraine, while the media talks constantly about Russia’s military successes on the Ukrainian front.
>In this atmosphere, people cease to differentiate between the literal and the metaphorical, suspecting intrigue where there is none and, conversely, losing the ability to read between the lines. The acceptance of contradictions is enforced by social pressure: believers are not supposed to criticise priests, tax-payers are not supposed to criticise the government, and criticism of Putin is tantamount to treason.
>To offset the more glaring contradictions, a number of deputies, clergy and cultural figures regularly voice deliberately unacceptable statements and propose ridiculous initiatives to shock the public, so that they can be graciously declined by higher powers. Legislative initiatives in this form include proposals to ban abortions, to punish homosexual acts, to make military service obligatory for childless women over the age of twenty-three, to deprive people of Russian citizenship if they marry a foreigner, to sentence mothers who go to beach resorts without their husbands to ten years in prison, to limit bad news on television to ten per cent of broadcast time, to prohibit the teaching of evolution in schools, and so on. Never knowing the real intentions of the authorities, and forever expecting that one of the new insane laws will be passed, the people are left depressed and indifferent to their fate.
Even after he really dead, there will still be Putin sightings just like Elvis
Rumors of his demise are greatly exaggerated
It seems
Bull-fucking-shit.
If Putin died, the first thing his successor would do to cement power would probably be creating an offramp for the war.
Putin may want it, but Russian oligarchs do not. They want their money; their yachts; their swiss mansions.
No Putin, no war.
What? Did the west take a shit in pootlers knickers?
Trying to think this through from the perspective of US policy: Suppose there’s unreliable evidence that Putin might be dead. I think it is in the US interests to remain skeptical as long as there’s any doubt. A couple of reasons. First, to avoid falling into an FSB propaganda trap. Second to keep arming and training Ukraine. The day that Putin dies it’s likely that pressure within the US to fund Ukraine would evaporate (and attention turned fully to Israel). That would be despite the likelihood that the Russian replacement would not turn tail but continue prosecuting that war. So even if it were an FSB plot for internal consumption, it could also have the effect of diminishing western support for Ukraine.
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Yep, he’s pushing up toadstools.
The movie ‘The Death of Stalin’ is pretty well done. It’s a drama/comedy and the interesting part to me is succession.
> According to a mysterious Russian Telegram channel called “General SVR”
You can just stop reading here. This is the channel that’s frequently asserted Putin to be on deaths door and even once that he crapped his pants after taking a tumble down the stairs
Or it’s just another psyop from fsb. Spoof stories that can be later disproved to spread distrust in all information. You can’t believe ANYTHING you hear…so you may as well stop trying.
They’ve been doing that for years.
I’m sure he’s already dead inside. As for whether he’s dead dead, I’ll believe it when we see concrete evidence.
All 4 putins are alive.
Heck, upvote it anyway and cause some chaos. I always said Putin would run with the money and leave the double
I like the aspect that discusses the political power struggle that is beginning whether this fuck is dead or alive. I hope the war ends soon, as this article discussed.
Is this like the dread pirate Roberts of Russia or something?
Sadly, he isn’t.
Alternatively: Putin is trying to pull a Dmitri Ivanovich.
I wish..
Stop posting this garbage please
Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead
I’ll believe it when I see his dead corpse. Though if this were true it would make Russia the second known case of a “necrocracy” after North Korea, as per Christopher Hitchens’ description.
Unless he is literally fucking dead, then yes its greatly exaggerated.
Don’t stop organizing his final resting place though everyone, won’t be long
The west would know of putins death before anyone else. There’s so many spy’s planted in the kremlin.
The original Putin died over 10 year ago.
Putin is no longer a person, but a role.
Every time the Putin dies one of the body doubles becomes the new Putin and a new body double is found.
One day it will be true. That day did not pass yet.
Buuut it also might be 🙄
This is Russian disinfo as also long-practiced on their own population…there is no such thing as ‘truth’ and no one can ever know what reality is
>Russia is a country that lives in contradiction. For example, the president tells us that he is fighting the oligarchs, then awards those same oligarchs with medals ‘For Service to the Country.’ Or the government tells us that prices for consumer goods will not rise, and a month later they double. Or the church teaches us that greed is a sin and ‘it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for the rich to enter the Kingdom of Heaven,’ while the Patriarch rides in a motorcade and befriends the rich and mighty. Or officials tell us that there are no Russian soldiers in Ukraine, while the media talks constantly about Russia’s military successes on the Ukrainian front.
>In this atmosphere, people cease to differentiate between the literal and the metaphorical, suspecting intrigue where there is none and, conversely, losing the ability to read between the lines. The acceptance of contradictions is enforced by social pressure: believers are not supposed to criticise priests, tax-payers are not supposed to criticise the government, and criticism of Putin is tantamount to treason.
>To offset the more glaring contradictions, a number of deputies, clergy and cultural figures regularly voice deliberately unacceptable statements and propose ridiculous initiatives to shock the public, so that they can be graciously declined by higher powers. Legislative initiatives in this form include proposals to ban abortions, to punish homosexual acts, to make military service obligatory for childless women over the age of twenty-three, to deprive people of Russian citizenship if they marry a foreigner, to sentence mothers who go to beach resorts without their husbands to ten years in prison, to limit bad news on television to ten per cent of broadcast time, to prohibit the teaching of evolution in schools, and so on. Never knowing the real intentions of the authorities, and forever expecting that one of the new insane laws will be passed, the people are left depressed and indifferent to their fate.
https://granta.com/russia-verge-nervous-breakdown/
It’s this time of the year again…
Even after he really dead, there will still be Putin sightings just like Elvis
Rumors of his demise are greatly exaggerated
It seems
Bull-fucking-shit.
If Putin died, the first thing his successor would do to cement power would probably be creating an offramp for the war.
Putin may want it, but Russian oligarchs do not. They want their money; their yachts; their swiss mansions.
No Putin, no war.
What? Did the west take a shit in pootlers knickers?
Trying to think this through from the perspective of US policy: Suppose there’s unreliable evidence that Putin might be dead. I think it is in the US interests to remain skeptical as long as there’s any doubt. A couple of reasons. First, to avoid falling into an FSB propaganda trap. Second to keep arming and training Ukraine. The day that Putin dies it’s likely that pressure within the US to fund Ukraine would evaporate (and attention turned fully to Israel). That would be despite the likelihood that the Russian replacement would not turn tail but continue prosecuting that war. So even if it were an FSB plot for internal consumption, it could also have the effect of diminishing western support for Ukraine.
Don’t get my hopes up.
The National enquirer is alive and well!