• HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    They’re giving him the Lenin treatment before he’s even dead

    He’s going to be around forever

    Only the good die young, assholes live FOREVER

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      5 days ago

      Stalin tried to enforce the Lenin treatment for himself…

      It doesn’t always stick.

      The next person to gain power is 100% going to clean house, because the Russian government is a pit of back biting vipers.

      • anomnom@sh.itjust.works
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        4 days ago

        You’re not worried that Putin is really just a puppet for all the oligarchs running the place now? Seems likely they’ll pick a new puppet.

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          They’re all in it together, but the ones less loyal to Putin have a habit of dying.

          Putin has had a bunch of them killed.

          There’s a great podcast called Sad Oligarch that goes over it all.

          So yeah, Putin is not currently a puppet ruler.

        • Tuukka R@sopuli.xyzM
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          A puppet is someone whose actions are fully steered from the outside.

          Putin is a person chosen by KGB/FSB because he makes decisions that are very useful its leaders, but he retains a large amount of autonomy.