Oligarch Holocaust! Putin Launches Murder Campaign of Human Rights Freedom Democracy Values Defenders in Russia!
Not the precious oligarchs!
The luxury high-rises of Russia are running red with the blood of dissidents and freedom-fighters.
Democracy isn’t dying in darkness - it is being murdered in broad daylight.
A moment of silence please for the brave oligarchs fighting on the front lines against the dark dictatorship that is Putin’s Russia.
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A member of the Russian elite dies in a freak accident? Happenstance. Then another dies in similar circumstances? Could be written off as a coincidence. But a spiralling body count of 23 deaths in less than a year has sparked fears of “enemy action”, as Auric Goldfinger famously put it to James Bond in the classic spy book.
Since late January 2022, Russia’s accident-prone business tycoons are rapidly in danger of becoming an endangered species.
The string of mysterious deaths has attracted global attention, with growing fears sinister forces are at play, even though the deaths have mostly been attributed to misadventure and mental health issues.
The trail of bloodshed, which started shortly before Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, has spanned time zones and continents.
The manner of death has varied from the seemingly straightforward (strokes and suicides) to freak accidents (falling down stairs or from a speeding boat) to the downright bizarre (poisoning from a shaman’s toad venom).
The youngest of the fatalities was 37 and the oldest 73. They have included feared military leaders, billionaire oil and gas oligarchs, top business executives, high-ranking public servants and, the latest, a “sausage tycoon”.
The article provided by the Sydney Morning Herald had pictures and short bios of the dead men which is why I linked it. However, the article is forced to point out that if Putin’s launched another shoah within Russia then Putin is also killing off his own allies. In other words, not only are people who are Putin’s enemies (supposedly) dropping dead, but men who seem to be involved with the military and, in particular war tech and weapons production are dying too. The lying media, naturally, buries the lede and lumps all these death under one category and throws the blame at Putin. In other words, they say that Putin is killing off the oligarchs but then mention that it’s not just anti-Putin oligarchs that are dropping dead…
But the thesis that anti-Putin oligarchs are dropping dead is interesting enough for now and worth exploring in its own right.
A question we ought to pose to ourselves is whether or not there is any corroborating evidence of a plot against the oligarchs. Don’t get me wrong, killing them off is fine and I wholeheartedly support and advocate for their gruesome dismemberment as a rule (and their families as well, frankly). So I would only have more respect for Putin if this was all true and I’m not trying to cover for the man if this is indeed true. Quite the opposite, I don’t want to fall prey to wishful thinking. All I see is an unusually large number of dead oligarchs and other important people over the last year.
But I would like to have some corroborating evidence, like if this was all occurring to a backdrop of economic reforms or efforts to nationalize the economy. So far, nothing of the kind has been observed or even articulated by the higher-ups. Furthermore, the fact that not one of the major, well-known and well-connected Yidividual oligarchs has jumped out of his window yet has not escaped me and also causes me to doubt. Even if this is a clean-up of sorts, it’s not thorough and might be better explained as a warning shot off the bow of the other oligarchs, or the current top dogs getting the green light to eat up their competitors and snap up some more assets to keep them loyal.
But what does this mean for the power balance within Russia?
Well, remember, the two castes battling it out for supremacy in Russia in the post-Soviet coliseum are the Spooks and the Crooks (siloviks and oligarchs). If there is indeed a concerted assassination campaign underway, then you better believe that it’s the spooks who are doing it because they have both the means and the motive to do it.
Liberals routinely accuse Putin’s Russia of being run like a mafia state. They are, of course, telling the truth on this count, but also lying by omission.
Remember, REAL politics of the kind that actually matters instead of just the trading of baseball cards that passes for politics in the Human Rights Freedom Love Democracies of the West is when an entire caste fights for dominance against another caste. And in Russia, the Liberals are simply shills for the Oligarch caste and want them to defeat the Silovik caste. Their solution to the Spook State is to simply impose the Crook State in its place. The West, for its part, when it talks about spreading its freedoms and values across the world actually means putting the Oligarchs and their preferred ideology in power: Liberalism.
That’s what’s really going on. It’s caste war, stupid!
Me, I reject the binary 0 - 1 code of the control matrix and always seek to stake out a truly independent third position. I don’t like either the Spooks or the Crooks and would rather have the Soldiers running things. The best chance Russia ever had at recovering from the mess of the 90s, the collapse of the USSR and the aggression of NATO lay with the wildly popular General Lebed, who was killed by either the Spooks or the Crooks, and with him, Russia’s best chance of rising from her knees.
A useful corollary to the above observation is the understanding that there can be no meaningful political change when the masses are simply tricked into voting for candidates from within the same caste. If you’re voting for one corrupt oligarch over another cycle after cycle, one politician from the monoparty over another, one technocrat from the same school over another, etc and you still end up surprised that nothing ever changes then you deserve the contempt and scorn that your rulers have for you.
Anyways, if the Oligarchs are purged, then the Siloviks will simply take over their assets.
This is a typical half-measure that would be entirely in-line with Putin’s general half-assed way of doing things. Instead of doing away with the problem of Oligarchy he tries to intimidate individual oligarchs into being loyal or replaces them with his own Judo buddies.
Now, this all begs the question: would a Russia run by Spooks be better than a Russia run by Crooks?
Well, yes, as much as I hate glow-in-the darks, I think it would be an improvement on pretty much all counts.
For one, you’d have patriotic corruption at the norm, at least. In other words, stolen assets would at least stay in the country because the Siloviks wouldn’t be able to stash them abroad with their Western cousins as the oligarchs are notorious for doing.
Also, you’d have less concerted political agitation and the peasants would be left to be apolitical instead of being enlisted by one oligarchic faction against another to fight to the death like knife-wielding monkeys. The Spook state would, instead, try to keep the peasants politically apathetic, which means that we’d be able to mellow out and treat one another better instead of having American-style tantrums over turkey at the dinner table.
Politics would come to resemble the period of Praetorian control in Rome, even more so than they do now, basically.
Overall, it’s not an ideal scenario by any stretch of the imagination.
But anything is an improvement over the bardak that Russia finds itself in now.
Hello Rolo,
Happy New Year. Thank you for the info that 23 petit riches have died last year although like you I am unable to put it into proper context.
Two random pieces of news that are relevant to you and the readers here.
1) In the UK the police and the MI5 prosecute children for involvement in right-wing terrorism ! The youngest are 13-year-old boys and some have been sentenced ! This is not some New Year joke. More details from the very official Reuters:
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-police-warn-younger-children-involved-far-right-terrorism-2022-03-17/
I am sure that Pakistani and Somali gangs were shivering in fear before the police and the MI5 intervened.
2) Yandex is the largest and most successful Russian internet firm. But is it Russian ? It is registered and headquartered in the Netherlands and listed on the Nasdaq. It is Russian because it mainly serves the former Soviet Union, because its leadership is drawn from the former Soviet Union and it has large operational offices in Russia and White Russia.
Yandex was not included in the sanctions at first. However a righteous yidividual, Lev Gershenzon, intervened loudly and insisted that Yandex be sanctioned too, because it spread disinformation about the war. After some lobbying, Yandex was sanctioned. The sanctions restricted its ability to move money between Russian legal entities and Western legal entities, prevented it from paying dividends and the coupons on its debt, resulting in default. The share price collapsed and the shares were delisted. Paying employees became a nightmare.
Another effect of the sanctions was to prevent the company from purchasing electricity for the data centres located in the West. So Yandex has to run its Western data centres on diesel generators at great cost, which threatens the company with actual bankruptcy, rather than technical default.
The Armenian (from Russia ?) CEO and his team were ousted. They were replaced by one of the founders, Arkady Volozh, and some of his friends. The new CEO is Jewish and plans to move the headquarters to ... Tel Aviv. In parallel the European Commission was mollified and the sanctions have been adapted to enable the company to pay its employees. No purchase of electricity though. Still Jewish magic has worked wonders and has delivered yet another internet giant into their hands.
The intent is to separate the Russian and non-Russian parts of the company and run them independently. But they would be run by the same team.
Will the spooks finally sign off on hitting the Ukraines f()cking transportation infrastructure? The "SMO" at this point is even beyond a bad parody of a war.
https://t.me/rybar/42484
Zog is actually starting to destroy the transportation infrastructure on the liberated territories but Russia still isnt touching the transportation infrastructure on the Ukrainian side. Besides this being the most blatant betrayal of an army in all of history that i can think of this is also pretty strong evidence that Zog has no intention of ever forgiving the non jews in the crook class. I mean its because of them that the relevant war fighting infastructure in Ukraine isn't being touched but here we have Zog not even remotely reciprocating in kind. After all the shitlib russian Oligarchs need that infastructure on the Russian side working to keep their shekel flow at peak levels. I imagine that Zog wont touch the oil transit pipes but apparently they have no qualms about blowing up everything else on the Russian side while the Russians just passively take it. How can the Oligarchs still not see that they are in the same boat as Putin now? They are literally incapable of recognising that history has already made it impossible for liberal non Jewish Russian billionaires to be part of the global ruling class. If Russia wins they cant be members of a global ruling elite that can no longer enforce its will on the whole world. Russian victory derails Zogs global ambitions for the foreseeable future. If Russia loses they are on trial with Putin and will be hung with him. So either way they are irrelevant as far as the future is concerned. However their adamant refusal to acknowledge that and make the relevant changes is going to ensure Russia is destroyed and they are executed in Nuremberg 2.0 as opposed to them having to settle for not being Schwab and Rothschilds shameless bottom boys and having fewer yachts and Tuscan villas.
I too tend to dislike the spooks, especially FSB but if they will at least give the Army half a chance at winning and than thats an improvement over the no chance they have right now. Keep stacking the bodies.