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Related: About this forumIt Begins! Grand Purge Against Russia's 'Elite' Started! Regime Devours Itself - The Russian Dude
The grand purge inside Russia has officially begun and its no longer just about crushing opposition or silencing activistsits 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 Putins system has been ripped apart. From the mysterious self-elimination of Transport Minister Roman Starovoyt to the brutal stripping of Konstantin Strukovs gold empire, the message is clear: no one is safe. Loyalty doesnt buy immunity, wealth doesnt 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. Putins Russia has entered a stage where repression isnt just aimed at criticsits 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 untouchabletheyre 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
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Deuxcents
(23,717 posts)1. Putin is a madman who happens to be a dictator hellbent on making his dream of the motherland possible
No matter at what the cost financially or personally of his citizens will be
Biophilic
(6,017 posts)2. I hope republicans are watching.
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
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.