Posted on 05/20/2022 7:28:15 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
Vladimir Putin's enemies are keeping a close eye on a bird in pointe shoes, because a broadcast of "Swan Lake" may reveal his demise.
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First, a bit of history about why so many historians and Eastern Europeans took to Twitter to pray for Swan Lake's swift appearance. To see dancing swans is, to use @asiktspolitruk's words, "the equivalent of white smoke from the Sistine Chapel's chimney in Rome announcing a new Pope." The broadcast would indicate that the end of Vladimir Putin was near.
When Leonid Brezhnev died in 1982, state-run television broadcast a full-length Swan Lake in lieu of a death announcement. The same footage was aired after the deaths of Yuri Andropov in 1984 and Konstantin Chernenko in 1985. In her book Like a Bomb Going Off: Leonid Yakobson and Ballet as Resistance in Soviet Russia, Janice Ross suggests that these screenings of the Russian ballet were used as a stalling tactic, allowing Soviet leadership time to plan while "soothing the masses." Ballerinas would dance and the public would wait, calmly, applauding the screen.
The same technique was used in 1991 when communists attempted to overthrow Mikhail Gorbachev. Swan Lake aired for three days straight while the public waited it out. In 2011, the Russian national television channel Kultura aired a rebroadcast of Swan Lake to commemorate the attempted coups' 20th anniversary.
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Swan Lake is more appropriate.
(Somebody dies in the end.)
Regarding your pic: Putin’s starting to resemble Chimpie Bush.
> What is Brandon’s song? <
I vote for Benny Hill’s theme song. But you’d have to speed up clips of Brandon looking confused, walking around aimlessly, etc.
Afternoon Delight!
Remember when Kim Jung un died in mid 2020. How many people Remember that? Maybe too distracted from covid...The media is incredibly irresponsible.
I can think of several. But I’ll start and end with “The Candy Man.”
Putin is going to be sprouting sunflowers pretty soon. Unless they pickle him to display like Lenin.
So one is supposed to be seen in public immediately after gut surgery
These people are nuts
yeah but everyone knows what it means when they air this
not really subtle anymore
Wouldn’t they first announce that he has caught a cold?
Soviet men do not live very long. All that vodka. Medical care is crap. Nutrition is scarce as well. Most recent Soviet leaders made it to their 70s, except for Gorbachev who is still alive at 91. So if Putin kicks the bucket, it is typical of what is expected of his life expectancy due to his birth in the Soviet Union.
Happy Days Are Here Again
Patrushev needs a guarantee from the elites and the oligarchs before they announce that Putin has a cold. And Patrushev is probably not going to get that guarantee so the power struggle to replace Putin will be Soviet ugly.
(Now I don't have to post it.)
I don’t know what Brandon’s song might be, but they do send up brown smoke every time he sharts himself.
“...So if Putin kicks the bucket, it is typical of what is expected of his life expectancy due to his birth in the Soviet Union.”
Putin’s life expectancy increased by 4 years the minute McDonalds stopped serving food in Russia.
I think Soviet and Russian leadership receives top drawer medical care. There were rumors that Brezhnev received heart surgery in the United States or Germany. Putin may be seriously ill, but if he dies, it won’t be because of substandard health care.
Brandon Song: “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life”. from Monty Python
“What is Brandon’s song?”
“Too old to cut the Mustard Anymore”
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