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Apparently you function using Russian “tactical truth.”
Russia has the word “krugovaya poruka,” or “gang guarantee.” there is a set of people with a common goal. Be it the Kremlin leadership or the Russian armed forces or whatever.

We have a common goal so I step out of the circle and lie to an outsider. My gang hears that I lie but they don’t judge me as a liar because they understand that I am using tactical truth (vranjo) to achieve the greater goals of our gang. The use of tactical truth, or a lie, is accepted if it is done for the benefit of the in-group. Just like you can steal when you don’t steal too much or from the wrong guy. You also get to lie if you lie for the sake of the gang.

It’s a form of doublethink, as Orwell showed in 1984. At the kitchen table, different things are said than outside the home. Everyone understands that Bob speaks very differently around the kitchen table than he does in public. Everyone understands why he does so. The in-group creates their own story. For example, “We had nothing to do with the poisoning of Skripal.” Or that “We have nothing to do with the shooting down of the Malaysian plane.” This is based on the fact that we in the West, under the rule of law, when we make an argument we need to be able to unequivocally prove our claim to be true. But when Russia makes an argument, there are always small gaps left here and there. Then, we Westerners start to think about it, “Is that really so?”

or instance, when Russian military went to Crimea, Putin said, “They are not Russian forces.” The Russians were proud that the Putin was able to use tactical truth. Putin said, “They are not Russian forces.” We started thinking here in the west, “Well, who are they then? Where did they come from?” This gave Russia the two or three days needed to take over Crimea completely. Then Putin remembered, “Oh yes, they were Russian troops after all.”

Or the shooting down of a Malaysian plane. It has been proven unequivocally that the missile that shot that plane down was from a Russian Air Defense Brigade. The wildest stories that were moving in Russia were that the people were already dead there on the plane. This story was spread. Those people who died in the accident did not die in the attack but they were already dead (before the missile struck). But no one questioned it because the Russians knew it was a tactical truth. They did not question how the captain agreed to fly a plane full of dead people, about to be shot down. No one questioned it because they knew it was a “tactical truth.”

What Will Happen to Russia?
The period of stagnation will continue until Putin leaves. Or there will be a harsher period, Stalin’s time part two. Another purge. Development stops and repression begins, the Iron Curtain. Or the whole system will collapse as it did in 1991. Or it polarizes with Westernizers and Slavophiles, the west and the east will begin to struggle with each other again.

Today we have a ‘tsar’ : Putinwho is infallible and will eventually retire, probably. A new tsar will be elected to replace him. This prince must be a tough guy. He needs to be able to guarantee a peaceful rest of the life for the retiring ‘tsar.’ Just as Putin guaranteed Yeltsin’s life, so that Yeltsin could live in peace from all legal action until he died.
In exactly the same way, Putin is now looking for such a prince. The Russian ‘princely story’ requires that the prince is a hero. Djumin is heroic, he has been awarded the title of Russian hero rescuing Yanukovych from the clutches of fascists in Kiev. That is, he earned the title of Russian hero.
He was a major general and Deputy Minister of Defense. He has earned the hero’s cloak, and he is safe in Tula. Djumin has been castled there to the Tula area to wait. It is close to Moscow. In an area where nothing should go wrong, i.e., the hero will no longer do anything wrong before Putin goes. And he waits there, learning administration in a good Tula district.
The second candidate, Yevgeny Zinitsev, is currently Minister of Emergency Situations saving the Russians whether there is a flood or whatever. That is, he will also receive the title of Russian hero. He will save the Russians at some point before rising to power. He has a pretty hard track record worked in the past: KGB, FSB, FSO, a man of the system. He has been very close to Putin.
These two candidates look similar to each other, funnily enough. The only difference is that Djumin plays as a goalkeeper for the hockey team against Putin.

According to research, Putin’s support is beginning to decline. There is talk that Putin is responsible for the problems of Russia where the armed forces are not so important. More important is the well-being of the people. Yes, little bubbles are bubbling under the surface.
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