Several top Russian officials have plunged to their deaths from windows in recent years, including a top oil executive and a defense official.

Several top Russian officials have plunged to their deaths from windows in recent years, including a top oil executive and a defense official.

  • Wahots@pawb.social
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    3 months ago

    Either Russia really needs to work on better building codes, or they need a complete change of government. This is beyond incompetence, even patients at hospitals have been falling out of windows. The negligence is absolutely astounding. /s

  • MyDogLovesMe@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    It’s like Groundhog Day in Russia, just with the economy.

    If the economist falls out vindow, …aaahh, another gloomy year.

  • cosmicrookie@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    They must get on with it now… find some other way of accidentally dying. If this proves one thing it is either the total lack of imagination in Russia, or the total lack of education on the risks of heights

    • Pieresqi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I think it’s done that way for brand reasons.

      Dude becomes undesirable -> falls out of window -> everyone knows he didn’t fell on it’s own

      It’s fear tactic.

        • Miaou@jlai.lu
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          3 months ago

          With a suicide/accident you don’t need to open an investigation. It’s basically showing off that the execution is state sanctioned at every level, I’d say.

    • Noerttipertti@sopuli.xyz
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      3 months ago

      They just have to add some flourish.
      Falling from the basement window on 6 bullets someone accidentaly dropped on the ground while shooting themselves 3 times to the back of the head with hands tied behind their back after totally by accident splashing novichok on their undies.

      • radivojevic@discuss.online
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        3 months ago

        Not the death. The method. The location. They have to be the laziest assassins ever—or Russia really needs to improve their building codes.

        • harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          3 months ago

          If there’s one thing I’ve learned from Star Wars, it’s that evil empires generally don’t put much emphasis on workplace safety. Good handrails and such cost money that could be used for superweapons and cool outfits for your bodyguards.

        • Maalus@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          Or, maybe, it’s a terror tactic for everyone to keep in line, since it is a signature method of killing opponents. It is also gruesome enough to be a huge deterrent. There is nothing funny about this, it’s completely tragic.

          • suction@lemmy.world
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            3 months ago

            Or, maybe I will disregard all your opinions because you parrot idiotic “internet comment tropes” like starting with “or, maybe”.

                • Maalus@lemmy.world
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                  3 months ago

                  You are using the “black humor comes from soldiers and EMTs to get them through a shitty day” argument but this isn’t that. OP who makes those jokes doesn’t live in Russia and doesn’t care about the assassinations. They are here to make a joke. You can see a trend of “just making a joke” everywhere online - with how many people comment on any topic attempting to be funny just for the fun of it. Someplaces though simply show a complete lack of empathy or understanding on their part. Example is the famous “I also choose this guy’s dead wife” joke - in person you’d get punched immediatelly if someone has just shown such vulnerability and you responded with that joke.

  • Moghul@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    In a few hundred years it’ll be written that during this time a whole bunch of people with important jobs died in Russia by falling out of windows, and there will be people thinking ‘no way’, when actually, ‘yes way’. I’m a little tired of watching history happening in my lifetime, ngl.