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Is Putin Dead? Pay Attention When Russia Starts Broadcasting 'Swan Lake'
Newsweek ^ | 5/17/2022 | BRYNN SHIOVITZ

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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To: marcusmaximus

Didn’t they pickle Stalin too? I thought he was displayed like Lenin, but now he’s interred someplace.


41 posted on 05/20/2022 8:15:22 PM PDT by bimboeruption (Trump = The best President since Washington. )
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To: marcusmaximus

Do you think the May 16th video meeting with Tajistan leader was also a hoax or prerecorded?


42 posted on 05/20/2022 8:16:18 PM PDT by Mount Athos
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To: marcusmaximus

Wife from Moscow . She’ll check-may have sources. If I find out anything , will post here


43 posted on 05/20/2022 8:17:14 PM PDT by BigEdLB (Let’s go Brandon!)
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To: marcusmaximus
Putin MIA since his surgery on May 12.

You so full of sh$t, it's ridiculous. You're a clown, Maxy.

Putin held meeting in Moscow with several regional leaders on May 16th that included Aleksandr Lukashenko. Yes, video is available of the meeting at RT.com.

https://president.gov.by/en/events/vstrecha-s-prezidentom-rossii-vladimirom-putinym-1652789229

Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko and President of Russia Vladimir Putin had a meeting on the sidelines of the Collective Security Treaty Organization summit in Moscow on 16 May. The meeting lasted for 40 minutes.

Do you ever ceased beclowning yourself? You're a moron.

44 posted on 05/20/2022 8:20:09 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: Secret Agent Man
'It's a Russian thing - you wouldn't understand.'
45 posted on 05/20/2022 8:21:02 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Wallace T.
I think Soviet and Russian leadership receives top drawer medical care.

True but they were all in bad shape by the time they get in power. Especially all the old guys in the 1980s.

46 posted on 05/20/2022 8:21:29 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: crusty old prospector

Brandon’s song 888

who let the dogs out?


47 posted on 05/20/2022 8:26:19 PM PDT by Surrounded_too
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To: Kazan

The deepfake video? LOL!


48 posted on 05/20/2022 8:27:30 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: Noumenon

Closing time. Brandon song.


49 posted on 05/20/2022 8:27:35 PM PDT by CJ Wolf ( what is scarier than offensive words? Not being able to say them. )
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To: Mount Athos

Deep fake. Putin’s floating head is hilarious.


50 posted on 05/20/2022 8:28:38 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: crusty old prospector

That Smell
Song by Lynyrd Skynyrd


51 posted on 05/20/2022 8:28:49 PM PDT by RedMonqey (Fu%k the Ballot box. Now the Cartridge Box)
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To: marcusmaximus

Newsweak.


52 posted on 05/20/2022 8:30:35 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Affirmative action is systemic/institutional racism/sexism targeting straight, white males.)
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To: RedMonqey

Good one!


53 posted on 05/20/2022 8:30:49 PM PDT by Allegra
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To: marcusmaximus

Weird...


54 posted on 05/20/2022 8:32:03 PM PDT by GOPJ (Biden wants borders open to destabilize the county and pit citizens against each other.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

But what would Bill have to play if Hillary passes before him then?


55 posted on 05/20/2022 8:35:15 PM PDT by Vealbone
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To: Jamestown1630

I am part Russian

I get the inflexibility/tradition

Its why I’m still discussing this with you


56 posted on 05/20/2022 8:55:07 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Well, don’t stop.

(But I doubt the Russians are going to play the Nutcracker when Putin kicks the bucket, despite your part-Russian-ness :-)


57 posted on 05/20/2022 9:01:05 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Vealbone

“...what would Bill have to play if Hillary passes before him then?”
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Ding Dong the Witch is Dead.


58 posted on 05/20/2022 9:03:27 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (My body, my choice....but not when it comes down to unconstitutional "vaccine" mandates.)
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To: marcusmaximus

Did the doctor say “oops?”


59 posted on 05/20/2022 9:05:06 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: Vealbone

But what would Bill have to play if Hillary passes before him then?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPf_PJlJsJQ


60 posted on 05/20/2022 9:30:17 PM PDT by matthew fuller (Donald J. Trump—the 45th, and last legitimate President of the United States.)
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