Is Putin Dead? Pay Attention When Russia Starts Broadcasting 'Swan Lake'

Newsweek ^ | 5/17/2022 | BRYNN SHIOVITZ

[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.

[grey_whiskers]

[Prince of Space]

I agree. The neocons here are getting more ridiculous every day. 🤣

[ground_fog]

It’s unbelievable. I have to clear my eyes now and make sure i’m on FreeRepublic. I’ve been here for twenty years and never seen so many fall for propaganda.

Holy Spirit made it clear to what’s going on.

[newfreep]

[Vaden]

Nobody does fake news better than Russia. Like claiming your fighting "Nazi's" when you are riddled with them yourself. Russia's actual Nazi militant paramilitary forces are well known and well documented:

[mac_truck]

I see nothing in your montage that supports the absolute nonsense you're spouting.

In fact one of the images are simply soldiers holding the national flag of the Luhansk People's Republic...a group actively fighting AGAINST Nazis in Ukraine.

Say hello to Denis Muryga, the deputy commander of Ukraine's notorious Aidar Nazi battalion being 'escorted' into court to stand trial for war crimes against the people of Luhansk.

[hoagy62]

What is Brandon's song?

A good one would be a song sung by the Patriots of the United Staes. I can think of a wonderful symphony by Millie Jackson.(NSFW)

[BradyLS]

That Smell
Song by Lynyrd Skynyrd

That's a great one! But a bit surprised no one has mentioned
Kinko the Clown
Aqualung
The Bogus Man

[Vaduz]

Dirty deeds don dirt cheap

[reformedliberal]

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Taxman?