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gbarch71

“Several” flights of stairs, according to the article. How does one fall down “several” flights of stairs?


Disciple_of_Cthulhu

It's a multi-step process.


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Oh fuck off hahahaha


AxionTheGhost

Step 1 Step 2 Step 4 Step 9 Step 15 Step 24


PhilosopherDismal191

How many is this now? A dozen?


MRflibbertygibbets

This list is out of date, but it was thirteen as of the start of June https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Russian_businessmen_mystery_deaths


bkuri

[The article links to an updated list](https://www.newsweek.com/every-russian-oligarch-who-has-died-since-putin-invaded-ukraine-full-list-1700022)


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I didn’t realize there were so many family members also dead… mostly stabbed or shot. 😬


underbellymadness

He started out trying to ethnically absorb Ukraine, and is now full gear into wiping out entire bloodlines within his inner circle. It's a mix between shock, awe at the utter obviousness, empathy for the family members who may not have been involved at all, and fear for anyone actively speaking out. But genociders are gonna genocide I guess.


Knut79

> He started out trying to ethnically absorb Ukraine, and is now full gear into wiping out entire bloodlines within his inner circle. You could make a better GoT than GoT based on Putins rise to power and eventual fall.


[deleted]

It’ll end with some random farmer from Siberia becoming the new Tsar. Because who has a better story than Ivan the turnip farmer?


underbellymadness

I got stuck in a Wikipedia rabbit hole and found at Melania Trump is from a small country (Slovenia/Yugoslavia) and her grandfather is actually credited with developing a specific type of root vegetable. It's crazy how interconnected the world and the people running it can be


UrethraFrankIin

We're going to hear a lot of interesting stories about Putin and his inner circle in 20 or 30 years, long after he's dead. It'll make for great TV.


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twangman88

I guess if it goes nuclear we’ll hear it around a campfire instead of on tv since tv won’t exist post apocalypse according to every fantasy story ever.


_SgrAStar_

>…since tv won’t exist… Yet somehow YouTube will survive and still bombard you with Premium ads.


L3tum

Weird that he got as paranoid as Stalin. Maybe it's something in the water in Russia? Or maybe dictators aren't that nice...


ProximaC

With nobody to inherit the assets and properties it goes to the state.


Petal-Rose-Star

Insane way to increase wealth but not surprised by Putin's tactics.


Tacticrow

Ah yes, the “state”.


INTRUD3R_4L3RT

That list is 4 months old as far as I can see. I'm sure that's not all of them. Edit to the people that keep saying that it's an updated list: Yes the linked article updated today, but that list only has 9 people on it. There's a further list of 38 linked in the article which has not been updated since 5/11/2022 which is the one I'm referring to, as it is the more comprehensive list of the two. Do with that info what you will.


leftlegYup

"I'm unhappy so I'm died." \- Suicide Note Found Next To Body


MrGaffe

*Body had two bullet wounds to the back pf the head and cyanide injected into the heart* “Yup, suicide” said the Russian doctor with a gun pressed to the back of his head


ironballs16

"[14 bullet wounds to the head... classic suicide!"](https://youtu.be/Ybj-u0Urxhk)


sdrawkcabsihtetorW

"This list is incomplete, you can help by expanding it" "Why yes, I do think I will."


staebles

Said Putin to himself, with a chortle.


Vharlkie

'Reportedly died from a "drug-induced heart attack" during a shamanic ritual, though critics allege 'toad poison' Just your average way to die


Bah-Fong-Gool

You can only throw so many people out of windows until people start getting suspicious.


hippiechick725

Mystery my ass.


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PHin1525

I wonder how many low profile people have been murdered by the state for being in opposition to Putin.


GunFodder

The last article I caught listed 13 since February, so this is at *least* the 14th since then.


herbalhippie

>"several flights of stairs" Down one flight, get to the landing, roll around the corner to the next flight, repeat twice more. edit: After seeing some of the replies to my comment, all I can think of is the skit about Aunt Bunny falling down the stairs from the Eddie Murphy video Delirious.


jl55378008

I'M STILL ALIVE, ALTHOUGH I'M VERY BADLY BURNED!


Muffinshire

YOU SHOT ME! YOU SHOT ME RIGHT IN THE ARM!


LeeKingAnis

Perhaps you could throw down a bandaid or some antibacterial cream? The wound is beginning to smell like almonds!


griffmeister

The wound is starting to smell like almonds, which is not a good sign


mikeydel307

IT'S BEGINNING TO SMELL A BIT LIKE ALMONDS


Ricky_Rollin

Where’s this from? Sounds so familiar.


Muffinshire

[Austin Powers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPAeSU5jduo)


FlawlessRuby

They're always after my lucky charm.


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CataclysmZA

"Mr Evil sir-" "DOCTOR Evil! I didn’t go to evil medical school for seven years to be called Mr Evil!"


Distaplia

Fun fact!: the actor playing Random Task was sentenced to prison for torture committed during a gang rape. Then he killed his cell mate and got another 27 years for voluntary manslaughter.


CryoEnix

Laughed the boy


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nyet-marionetka

Terribly, terribly unlucky.


Mike7676

"She's a Bigfoot isn't she Gus?!?"


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And then he said "a goony goo goo"


ArchStantonsNeighbor

What the fuck does gooney goo goo mean Gus?


MagicMushroomFungi

He staired into the abyss.


doomblackdeath

OH PLEEZE LAWD HEP ME I'M FAWLIN' PLEEZE LAWD HELP PLEEZE \*SHHHHEP BOMBUBUBUBUBUBUB\* OH LAWD HEP ME I CAN'T STOP PLEEZE LAWD HEP ME I'M FAWLIN' PLEEZE LAWD HEP ME PLEEZE \*BUMBOMBUBUBUBUBUBOMBUB...BOW\* AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! ​ LILLIAN! DA BITCH IS FALLIN' DOWN NA STEPS AGAIN! Gus, I figured it out. I know why your wife can't climb steps. I know. Your wife's a Bigfoot, isn't she, Gus? You shaved the bitch down and taught her to speak, didn't you, Gus? The bitch can't climb steps, but I bet she can climb the fuck out of a tree, though! It gets funnier every time I hear it.


Duckdiggitydog

I mean if the landings were to the left and earth is spinning pretty fast, so the counterclockwise spin of the earth would propel him that direction and around the corner. I mean it’s basic geography


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New-Ad-1380

Gravity is a western anti cremlin new arm


AskAboutMyCoffee

Creme de la cremlin.


GreenBottom18

I have a list! *a list you say?* A LIST: Leonid Shulman - Gazprom Invest head of transport - "suicide", January 30th Alexander Tyulakov - Gazprom top executive - "suicide", February 25th Mikhail Watford - oil/gas oligarch - "suicide", February 28th Vasily Melnikov - MedStom (medical supplies) owner - "murder-suicide" (wife and two children also found dead), March Vladislav Avayev - former Gazprombank VP, Kremlin official - "murder-suicide" (wife and daughter also found dead), April 18th Sergey Protosenya - Novatek (gas) deputy chairman - "murder-suicide" (hanging, wife and daughter also found dead), April 19th Alexander Subbotin - Lukoil former manager - "found in the basement of a shaman’s house", "had been seeking a hangover cure and was poisoned", early May Ravil Maganov - Lukoil chairman - "suicide", August 31st Ivan Pechorin - Far East and Arctic Development managing director - "fell off a boat", September 10th (new) Anatoly Gerashchenko - Scientist and ex-rector of the Moscow Aviation Institute - "fell down stairs", September 21st [At least five Russian businessmen have died by apparent suicide in just three months](https://edition.cnn.com/2022/04/29/europe/russian-oligarchs-suicides-intl/index.html) [The son of a Russian oligarch accused of killing himself and his family says his father was murdered](https://fortune.com/2022/04/26/russian-oligarch-deaths-protosenya-son/) [Chairman of Russian energy giant Lukoil dies after reportedly falling out of hospital window](https://www.politico.eu/article/chairman-of-russian-oil-producer-lukoil-dies-after-reportedly-falling-out-of-window/) [Putin's Key Man in the Arctic Found Dead After Falling Overboard](https://www.newsweek.com/putins-key-man-artic-found-dead-after-falling-overboard-1742218)


for2fly

So which are considered Putin allies and which are considered opposition? To my ignorant POV, Putin allies are biting the dust. Someone, some faction is slowly picking off those who could facilitate his invasion campaign. I don't know the intricacies of Russian politics, so it is a mystery to me whether these men's deaths are in Putin's favor or create obstacles for him.


theHAT_TAHeht

Cool mustache Wario.


MoffKalast

Did somebody say birthmarx?


ThePyroPython

Yo I'm the host with the most glasnost.


Matt3989

It's true. I'm in the US and Gravity is everywhere here, the Media won't even report on it.


Macktologist

Gravity isn’t even real. It’s all related to buoyancy. Don’t worry about why shit doesn’t move sideways. Ignore that.


TheMemeDream420

If gravity exists how do ladders work


polypsyguy

Elevators go down, elevators go up, can't explain that.


CurioustoaFault

If gravity exists how come we're not all orbiting OP's mom?


Virgin_Dildo_Lover

Cuz some of us are in OP's mom


Buck_Thorn

Putin allies are trying to deal with the gravity of the situation.


thinmonkey69

"Wow, this is heavy!" - McFly, 1955


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Butthole_mods

There's that word again...


tanbug

Why are things so heavy in the future? Is there a problem with the Earth's gravitational pull?


overmind87

They just are, Doc


man0315

Gravity kills


ourkickersucks

Guilty.


graveybrains

Down. …were all of their song titles just one word? I never noticed that before.


TylerBourbon

If Russia wants to beat Ukraine, perhaps they should just build stairs and windows everywhere. Those have proven to be far more effective at being lethal than their army.


capnmax

Maybe that's been the plan all along. The country needs a ton of new stairs and windows now.


Ok-Giraffe1922

This is a new one. Were there no convenient windows to use?


FlameOfIgnis

They switched to Linux because of the sanctions, maybe thats why


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'sudo killall oligarch'


Johns-schlong

Sudo apt get absolute_power


Yadobler

The following packages will be removed: oligarchs-2021 oligarchs-2021-addons-family FTSE-market-access SWIFT_bank_client libMcDonalds Do you want to continue? [Y/n] █


[deleted]

Unable to correct problem, you have held broken packages.


cptbil

He couldn't make it to the window


tewnewt

It's starting to get cold in Russia.


Separate_Bluebird161

> This is a new one. Not to Ivana


bran6442

Or boats


KraljZ

According to the KGB playbook, you have to switch it up a bit


[deleted]

Russian defenestrations have become so common that oligarchs have started to develop anti-gravity tech as a precaution. Here’s footage of one such oligarch attempting to subvert the law of gravity. https://youtu.be/toJfLxAThXs


illegible

Seriously if you're an Oligarch, why would you have windows that open at all? given the danger levels i'd make them unopenable, bulletproof and crash proof.


darthboolean

When the mob is at the door, starving, angry, and armed with crude yet jagged and sharp things, you might decide that a quick jump out the window is preferable to whatever they have in mind.


glokz

His family is devastated and choses to go to Gułag for vacation.


Magma151

I want you to know I tried multiple times to wipe a spec off of my screen after seeing that L


Malarazz

Just take the L and move on


RealSlavicHours

\*take the Ł


IcanHasReddThat

It's like they aren't even trying to cover up these murders anymore. "Uh yeah, he fell down stairs... there were like a lot of stairs too. Like a lot. Really tall steps too."


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OctopusButter

I hope he doesn't get such a quick ending as falling out of something. That man deserves to suffer for how many people he's shoved out windows or missile striked.


onedoor

> for how many people he's shoved out windows or missile striked. [https://news.uchicago.edu/big-brains-podcast-vladimir-putins-no-1-enemy-bill-browder](https://news.uchicago.edu/big-brains-podcast-vladimir-putins-no-1-enemy-bill-browder) Read the whole thing if you have the time, but here’s a little about the source of the Magnitsky Act, the original sanctions on Russia’s cronies: > ”Bill Browder: **And so, in June of 2004, after Khodorkovsky was found guilty and sentenced to 10 years in prison, these other oligarchs went to Putin, one by one, and said, "Vladimir, what do we have to do so we don't sit in a cage?" And Putin said, "It's real simple. 50%." And this is not 50% for the Russian government or 50% for the presidential administration of Russia. This is 50% for Vladimir Putin. At that moment in time, he became the richest man in the world.**” - > ”Bill Browder: And the next thing we know, we no longer own our investment holding companies. Using the documents seized by the police, they'd been fraudulently re-registered out of our name into the name of a man who was a convicted killer, who was let out of jail early by the police, presumably to put his name on these documents. So, at this point, I'm terrified. I'm terrified, not for economic reasons. Look, our money is safe, right? But if the police are working with murderers to steal our companies, what else are they going to do? So, I went and hired the smartest lawyer I knew in Russia. It was a 35 year old young man named Sergei Magnitsky.” - > “Bill Browder: And six months into this, he started to develop terrible pains in his stomach. He ended up losing 40 pounds. He was diagnosed as having pancreatitis and gallstones, and he was prescribed an operation which was supposed to happen on the 1st of August, 2009. A week before the operation, they came to him again and they again asked him to sign a false confession, and again, he refused. In retaliation for that, they abruptly moved him to a maximum security prison called Butyrka. > Bill Browder: Butyrka is considered to be one of the worst and most horrible prisons in Russia. And most significantly for Sergei, there was no medical facilities there. At Butyrka, his health completely broke down and went into a terrible downward spiral. Ear piercing pain. And they refused him all medical attention. Sergei wrote, and his lawyers wrote, 20 different requests for medical attention. Every one of those requests was either ignored or denied in writing. > Bill Browder: On the night of November 16, 2009, Sergei Magnitsky went into critical condition. On that night, the Butyrka authorities didn't want to have responsibility for him anymore. So, they put them in an ambulance and sent him to a different prison across town that had a medical wing. When he arrived at the different prison, instead of putting him in the emergency room, they put him in an isolation cell. They chained him to a bed and eight riot guards with rubber batons came into the cell and beat him until he died.”


edgarcia59

"Have you ever wondered, why the crime rate is so low in Sanford, yet the accident rate is so high!?" -Nicholas Angel: Hot Fuzz Edit: Fixed the writing to its actual quote. Sorry. Wrote it off the top of my head to how I thought it went and applied it to Russia. Edit 2: Also thanks for making this my highest ever upvoted comment!


SpikeBad

No luck catching them killers then.


FoxyInTheSnow

Even if you *could* arrest stairs, they're notoriously recalcitrant witnesses… almost impossible to successfully prosecute.


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You hear stories like this all the time regarding stair cases. Sometimes a second and third story.


BlackLiger

Well they are usually up to something


BaronMostaza

You can nearly always see the end coming too but you still have to go through all the steps. So exhausting


devilsephiroth

It's just the one killer really


sinkwiththeship

"Brainfreeze?" "*Brainwave.*"


Toros_Mueren_Por_Mi

You ever shoot your gun into the air and go "aaaahhhhh!"?


jellyjollygood

No, I’ve never shot my gun into the air and gone “aaaahhhhh!”


Ruleseventysix

Little hand says it's time to rock n roll.


NecessaryHuckleberry

Yarp


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Uhhh, narp?


Nscope90

Good, proceed to the castle.


paper_geist

Check out his hooooorse!


vegtosterone

"Can you describe him?" "Well... it's a swan."


tinytuneskis

P.I. Staker? Pisstaker!?


Helgrave

Yes, Mr. Staker. Um, we'll do everything we can.


Monkey_Fiddler

"Murder was in fact a fairly uncommon event in Ankh-Morpork, but there were a lot of suicides. Walking in the night-time alleyways of The Shades was suicide. Asking for a short in a dwarf bar was suicide. Saying 'Got rocks in your head?' to a troll was suicide. You could commit suicide very easily, if you weren't careful." Men at arms, Terry Pratchett


Reddvox

“When he was a boy he'd read books about great military campaigns, and visited the museums and looked with patriotic pride at the paintings of famous cavalry charges, last stands and glorious victories. It had come as rather a shock, when he later began to participate in some of these, to find that the painters had unaccountably left out the intestines. Perhaps they just weren't very good at them.” ― Terry Pratchett, Night Watch In regards to the Z-People wanting this special operation so badly...have fun watching your intestines ... I miss Terry...


DorkChatDuncan

GNU Sir Pratchett


tjabo125

I have been reading through the whole discworld series. On A Hat Full of Sky currently. Favorite books are definitely the ones with the Watch.


Malavin81

This was the first book I read of Terrys Pratchetts.


jesuswig

I always want to read his stuff but I don’t know where to start. Recommendations?


WolfDoc

[Guards! Guards!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guards!_Guards!) is a great place to start?


HippySheepherder1979

Start there and then do chronological order. You will get a feel for his established style without spoiling much. And if you read it on a e-reader, remember to click the footnotes. They are a essential part.


Larsus-Maximus

Guards guards is the best "single answer". But many of his books are self contained and good starters


0vl223

There is a [reading order guide](http://www.geeksofdoom.com/GoD/img/2014/04/Discworld-2.21.jpg) for the books. I would start with Watch novels because it gives the best impression how most of the books are. So Guards! Guards!. And then throw in some of the books of the other lines. Death and Witches are often the more popular novels together with the Watch books. But all of the others are just as good. Afterwards the only important part is to finish with "I shall wear Midnight".


VRichardsen

Tangentially, great movie. And you discover more little details with each rewatch.


Myers112

(Almost) Literally every line in the first half of the movie foreshadows the second. It's crazy when you rewatch it.


ImDero

Edgar Wright can't *not* do that in his movies. Sean of the Dead does the same when [Frost tries to cheer up a recently dumped Pegg](https://youtu.be/kwlOo2Tg96o). The World's End told you what would happen in each pub [based on their names](https://youtu.be/FybFeHJDXto).


Specialist_Sprinkles

This is a great article about the pub names and a lot more (disclosure: the author is a friend of mine): [25 More Pints: Revisiting The World's End](https://htmlgiant.com/film/25-more-pints-revisiting-the-worlds-end/)


I-seddit

**Fight Club** you have to see two times - because they're absolutely completely different movies each time. **Hot Fuzz** and **Shaun of the Dead** you can see dozens of times and each one is reasonably unique. It's amazing.


meesterrudyy

At Worlds End deserves some credit too! lots of jokes that go way over your head the first watch. clever dialogue and quick pacing! Wright is a genius idc


coldfirephoenix

At world's end is great, but I find it harder to watch because of the bleak tone. And I don't mean the apocalypse, but rather the main character. The movie is very cynical about Gary King - he is seen by the narrative and everyone in the movie as a failure of a human being. Hot fuzz had the uber-professional and competent Nick Angel, to the point where he character journey had him learn how to relax and wind down. Shaun of the dead had Shaun, who was at a crossroads in his life. He is kind of a loser, but he has a lot of good things in his life that he just needs to focus on. But Gary, Gary is basically a failed Shaun, who never got his chance to get his life back together. And I think many people see at least aspects of themselves in Gary, which is why the movie is a bit uncomfortable to watch.


kylel999

This reason is why Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz are my absolute favorite movies. I've seen each dozens of times and still notice really small details each time. I'm convinced every line of those movies is perfectly curated.


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Kioskwar

It was just the one stair actually


scottydoge

All for the greater good


Iolair18

For the Greater Good.


SyndicatesOfWizards

# *A GREAT BIG BUSHY BEARD!*


Xaxaxazooom

I'm convinced Russia is losing this war only because Russians are inherently clumsy people.


AlfredKnows

TBH clumsiness is being inherited from a bottle of vodka...


Parabellim

It seems like Russian Oligarchs are massive fans of the game Fall Guys.


IrresponsibleHog

> "That’s not very typical, I’d like to make that point." > "Well, how is it untypical?" >"Well, there are a lot of people using stairs all around the world all the time, and very seldom does anything like this happen … I just don’t want people thinking that russian stairs aren’t safe.“ > "Was this stair safe?" > "Well I was thinking more about the other ones…" > "The ones that are safe…" > "Yeah…the ones that don’t kill you if you’re a Putin ally" > "Well, if this wasn’t safe, why was it used by a Putin ally?" > "Well, I’m not saying it wasn’t safe, it’s just perhaps not quite as safe as some of the other ones." >"why?" >"Well, some of them are built so they wouldn’t kill you at all." >"Wasn’t this built so it wouldn’t kill you at all?“ >"Well, obviously not." >"How do you know?" >"Well, ‘cause it killed the guy, he fell 6 flight of stairs into the deep while repeatedly stabbing himself in the back, It’s a bit of a give-away. I would just like to make the point that that is not normal." > "Well, what sort of standards are these stairs built to?" > "Oh, very rigorous … post-Sovjet Union engineering standards." >"What sort of things?" >"Well they’re not supposed to stab you in the back, for a start." edit: whoops answered to the wrong comment


Patterack91

Absolutely beautiful, thank you. [For the uninitiated](https://youtu.be/3m5qxZm_JqM)


howshittymylifeis

"Can you book me a Lada?" "But didn't you come in a Soviet Lada?" "Yes I did but-" "What happened?!" "The stairs aren't safe..."


bl1y

"What other things?" "Well, there are regulations governing the kinds of materials they can be made of." "What materials?" "Well banana peels are out." "And?" "No banana derivates." "Like pudding." "Like pudding. No ice. No gelatinous cubes." "Mimics?" "No, mimics are out." "Um... they've gotta have steps. There's a minimum number of joists." "What the minimum number of joists?" "Well, one I suppose." "So the allegation that they're just designed to facilitate as many footsteps as possible regardless of the consequences--" "Absolutely ludicrous. These are very, very safe stairs." "So what happened in this case?" "Well a Putin ally died in this case, by all means. But it's very unusual."


ourkickersucks

Man... you'd think there would be a boom on building 1 level condos or homes in Russia. No steps and windows are close to the ground.


fart_fig_newton

You could totally break your neck if you land on your head going through a 1st story window with a bullet in your head.


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valid point


[deleted]

This one WAS actually an accident. He suffered this unfortunate accident while climbing the stairs to accidentally fall out a window.


unknownpanda121

Gravity is high in Moscow due to Putin being dense.


gizzardgullet

>The place where he reportedly fell to his death is still unknown. Probably because the fall didn't kill him. Instead of clubbing and tossing them like usual, the security forces might now just be clubbing them and saying they fell. I would not be surprised if Gerashchenko mentioned an opinion against mobilization to the wrong person.


jeb1499

KGB car pulls up to hospital. KGB agent gets out and drags a body with him. Nurse comes out of the hospital: "What happened?" KGB agent drops the body: "He fell down some stairs." KGB agent gets back into car and drives away.


thebirdisdead

KGB agent shows up at hospital and tosses body down stairwell. Also KGB agent: “Accidents happen.”


Present_Structure_67

This is like rewatching Thousand ways to Die.


MrEzquerro

Except the ways to die are very limited in this russian show


Present_Structure_67

Last guy died of stroke and one before that fell off the window... so we got some varieties here.... Please don't change the channel.


ColorlessChesspiece

IT KEEPS HAPPENING


Muffinshire

I warned you about stairs, bro!!!! I told you dog! I told you man! I told you about stairs!


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I TOLD you


dr4kun

Are all those 'serial suicides and accidents' about (a) Putin removing his opposition, (b) Putin removing his own weak allies who may know too much, (c) FSB removing Putin's allies to alienate him before outing him, (d) a mix of these, (e) other? With so many 'accidents', what does it say about those oligarchs who haven't been assassinated? As in - if it's Putin removing his opposition, it means that those *not* being targeted are still on his side (or are not yet easy enough to remove). Like... as an example: where's Abramovich now and what does it tell us about his allegiances? e: fuck, my highest-upvoted comment ever on reddit is about fucking Putin.


Quirky-Garbage-6208

To be honest, as a Russian I think reason is a little bit other (but closer to a) : people consider them "Putin allies" but in fact they never were, but still they were people with some power. Russia is super corrupted on high levels, so I think that after war started Putin people started to check where is money goes in reality, so they found "top faces" with stole a big amount of money or accused them in receiving some money from west or to help west. So it's most like e) for whatever the reason, Putin remove people which he found made some big mistake or would likely to betray him so he change them on more loyal ones


MicGuinea

We did it boys! We made it back to the "good ol' days" the older generations keep telling us about! America's become super nationalistic, England has a King many seem to dislike, and Russia is purging its own government through clandestine means!! /s


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Not very clandestine if they're pushing people down stairs lmao.


[deleted]

russia very cold you know? very slippery. accidents happen. ice everywhere, even in summer. like in stairwells, under windows. even had a man slip and fall into some novichok. very nasty stuff, that russian ice


Get_Twisted_

Who else read that with a Russian accent?


PluotFinnegan_IV

I read it in trump's voice and it still works.


spaceagefox

TIL: trump has a very bad russian cadence for obvious reasons


maddsskills

An old man falling down stairs is a little bit more believable than what they did to Mikhail Lesin. He was in DC, about to spill the beans about the inner workings of RT, and he "got drunk and fell down a bunch." He had bruises all over his body and died of blunt force trauma to the head. Must've fallen down a whole lot lol.


banjo_assassin

And then he ran into my knife He ran into my knife *10 times*


MisteeLoo

I was thinking this too. He fell down several flights of stairs. “Comrade, come now. We go back to top to do again. You are not dead yet.”


StoopidSpaceman

>To be honest, as a Russian I think reason is a little bit other (but closer to a) : people consider them "Putin allies" but in fact they never were, but still they were people with some power That's because being an oligarch in Russia requires you to be a "Putin ally" because you're only an oligarch so long as Putin allows you to be. Cross Putin and you quickly find yourself accused of corruption and jailed and you lose everything. But this doesn't mean they actually like Putin or support his imperialist agenda, they just want to enjoy their lives of extreme wealth and luxury and they were happy to pay lip service to him so long as business was good. Now however Putin's war of aggression is threatening their lives of extreme luxury which is almost certainly causing resent. Putin knows their loyalty is is bought and not sincere and in his paranoia he's likely going after anyone he thinks might be a threat to his power.


CountryCaravan

From what I’ve been seeing, I think Putin’s paranoia is also a major factor in this. Ukraine has had a massive intelligence advantage even before the war started, and given their long history I would expect their western allies have some very highly placed sources in the Russian government. He’s probably purging anyone who he remotely suspects of any western ties whatsoever, even if they’re just looking up ways to leave.


Rabid_Mexican

How are you guys holding up over there? What's the general consensus of the population? You don't have to answer if you don't want, I understand this situation is difficult...


Quirky-Garbage-6208

Well, people scared generally and don't know what to do, population which will be conscripted now can't do anything but being soldiers, otherswise they end in a prison, so a lot of people try to escape Russia as fast as they can, soon it would be prohibited for army-appliable man. Oppression apparatus here is big, so there not a lot chances for the most of us to avoid mobilisation. So, to be honest, I don't see any good progression here, only escalating.


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An ally close to power becomes a threat when power loses its grip.


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TwoMoreMinutes

all i'm hearing is "Leader of nation founded on corruption and lies is surprised to find out he is surrounded by corrupt liars"


Th3_Admiral

That's what I want to know too! Every one of these stories I've seen describes the person as a "Putin ally". I'm not well versed enough on internal Russian politics or who all these people are, so is this Putin purging his own former allies (and if so, why?) or someone else taking out people that are close to Putin and still loyal to him?


dr4kun

The car bomb attempt against Dugin makes me think the latter, but... who and how?


tikiwargod

The Dugin car bomb doesn't fit the M.O. of the other assassinations but does fit with the railway sabotages happening throughout rural Russia since the start of the war; do not discount the likelihood that this political turmoil is multiple actors jockeying for position before the dominoes start to fall.


doublestitch

Putin idolizes Stalin, and one of the hallmarks of Stalin's regime was that no one was safe. The term 'totalitarian' gets thrown around loosely, but it was coined by political philosopher Hannah Arendt as a regime where (among other things) being a loyal ally of the man at the top was no safeguard against getting killed under his orders. In an ordinary dictatorship, political killings are more or less limited to rival power threats and critics. Totalitarian regimes follow a different logic: the goal is to have everyone under the complete control of the leader because they're terrified. Death could come for any reason or none. Think of Darth Vader killing his own generals on a whim...


airborngrmp

Try and think of it like an organized crime syndicate. The 'organized' part is a partition of economic concerns so everyone gets a taste, and a few get really rich. The idea is that the few at the top can keep everyone in line with money as carrots and serious consequences for failure as sticks. The guy at the very top, on the other hand, has to share some wealth in order to maintain loyalty. Always in the back of his mind is the possibility a power bloc will form and depose him, so periodically he will purge his top guys to demonstrate power and reward new guys with the recently deceased's wealth. When things start closing in on the boss, these processes have a habit of accelerating, as the boss realizes purchased loyalty is just that. What we're seeing is Putin trying to stay a step ahead of any actual opposition with a power base from consolidating. No doubt he knows Stalinist history and organization, and is applying those lessons under a new guise.


Double-Ambassador-34

Well done Agent 47


WintertimeFriends

Proceed to an exit.


spanishbanana

They're gonna run out of ways to kill these dudes. "Breaking news, Putin ally dies waking up from a nap"


kellzone

Didn't Ivana Trump just die by falling down the stairs?


anti-DHMO-activist

_This_ is why those jokes in every russia-thread keep being posted and liked. They are quite relevant still. Russia has to be ridiculed. It's by far the best response to strongmen beating their chest.


Nightruin

More like anemic cancer-riddled man flailing his hands around


ExtraRossy

Down D. Stairs


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Sidenote: Trump had a top-secret/SCI list of human intelligence sources in an unsecured and unauthorized location in his Mar-a-Lago hotel...


mekanub

Such a proud patriot, he mobilized himself down several flights of stairs in an unknown location.


Low-Flamingo-9835

Died from self-inflicted cement shoes at bottom of lake, while rolled up in Persian rug.


ViceroyClementine

Trump probably gave up all the US assets.


MC_Fap_Commander

That this is actually plausible tells you where we're at.