Posted on 11/04/2023 7:31:58 AM PDT by canuck_conservative
Russian authorities have closely monitored the public reaction to fake reports of the death of Vladimir Putin and may punish those who praised the demise of the Russian president, according to Ukrainian intelligence.
Andrii Yusov, a representative of Defence Intelligence of Ukraine, was responding to the claims emerging last week that Putin had died after a cardiac arrest and that those in his inner circle were planning a body double to replace him...
In what could have a plot line borrowed from the 2017 film The Death of Stalin, which satirizes the indecision among the inner circle of the former Soviet leader when he died in 1953, the post said medical staff had been "blocked in the room with Putin's corpse."
The rumors about Putin's alleged demise proliferated online, leading to a spike among Russians using the search terms "dead Putin, dying Putin, and Putin died," according to the Russian investigative site, Agentstvo ...
Yusov told the Ukrainska Pravda talk show that Russian secret services had "photographed, literally screenshotted, all public reactions" to the online reports, such as comments and likes.
"Soon, someone will probably come for some of those who put smiley-face emojis under messages about Putin's death," Yusov said in the interview on Friday.
"We must understand that this is a Russian story, a Russian campaign," Yusov added. He was reiterating a point he had made on the same show two days earlier that the rumors of Putin's death had been disseminated by Russian propagandists to test the reactions of ordinary citizens...
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Today is not Opposites Day.
Now is the time for every good Canadian FRenchie to assemble his/her white flag.
You spew too much garbage.
” ‘Brendan Cole’ - LOL!”
Scott Ritter. Doug Macgregor.
ROTFLMAO!!
Is this the one who goes on about “victory parades?” There’s a Zeeper who’s fixated on victory parades and I think it’s this one.
As if the war is just some game, not a serious event where hundreds of thousands of people are killed on the whims of a couple of dictators, one of whom is making money hand over fist ofc of U.S. taxpayers.
Please don’t post to me on the Ukraine threads, so I don’t have to insult your intelligence, Megan.
Careful what you wish for. If Putin actually died, you might not like the consequences.
or, the next guy could actually be a human being that wants to get along with Russia’s neighbors
why do you discount that possibility?
are you saying EVERYONE in Russia is a warmongering monster??
Gorbachev was better than Brezhnev, but there have been more bad leaders in Moscow than good ones.
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