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TexasTowelie

(122,628 posts)
Thu Aug 21, 2025, 02:34 PM Aug 21

It Begins! Grand Purge Against Russia's 'Elite' Started! Regime Devours Itself - The Russian Dude



The grand purge inside Russia has officially begun and it’s no longer just about crushing opposition or silencing activists—it’s the regime devouring its own elite. Ministers, oligarchs, billionaires, and loyal soldiers who once believed that loyalty meant protection are discovering that the contract with Putin’s system has been ripped apart. From the mysterious self-elimination of Transport Minister Roman Starovoyt to the brutal stripping of Konstantin Strukov’s gold empire, the message is clear: no one is safe. Loyalty doesn’t buy immunity, wealth doesn’t guarantee survival, and service to the Kremlin only ends in humiliation, prison, or death. This is fear as the only currency, a system that eats itself alive, where even the most trusted insiders are discarded like expendable soldiers on the frontline. Putin’s Russia has entered a stage where repression isn’t just aimed at critics—it’s aimed at everyone, including the very people who built and sustained the regime. The grand purge has started, and the higher you climb, the harder you fall. Welcome to a Russia where the elite are no longer untouchable—they’re the main course.
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It Begins! Grand Purge Against Russia's 'Elite' Started! Regime Devours Itself - The Russian Dude (Original Post) TexasTowelie Aug 21 OP
Putin is a madman who happens to be a dictator hellbent on making his dream of the motherland possible Deuxcents Aug 21 #1
I hope republicans are watching. Biophilic Aug 21 #2
I believe republicans will only learn the bad part, by now if they have not figured out there is zero loyalty Escurumbele Aug 21 #3

Deuxcents

(23,717 posts)
1. Putin is a madman who happens to be a dictator hellbent on making his dream of the motherland possible
Thu Aug 21, 2025, 02:42 PM
Aug 21

No matter at what the cost financially or personally of his citizens will be

Escurumbele

(3,862 posts)
3. I believe republicans will only learn the bad part, by now if they have not figured out there is zero loyalty
Thu Aug 21, 2025, 05:16 PM
Aug 21

from the buffoon to them, they won't learn by watching this video. As I have said in the past, they all think they are really special, that while they see people (brown noses) like them thrown under the bus? they believe it will never happen to them, until it does because they will all get their turn.

Pence should be their best example. A guy who used to look at trump while trump spewed vile crap through his mouth, and not only look at him, but doing it with adoring eyes, who had not dignity, as well as many republicans, when he and others were told to give speeches about how great trump was...there is no dignity or principles on these people, they won't learn.


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