Posted on 02/22/2024 4:20:07 AM PST by Chad C. Mulligan
The death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and accusations that Vladimir Putin was behind it have once again raised the spectre of Kremlin assassinations.
World leaders and commentators instantly pointed the finger at the Russian president when the news of Navalny's death broke on Friday, with questions around the cause of death fuelled by officials delaying the release of the body.
Some have suggested the 47-year-old dissident was poisoned - as he was in 2020 in a previous assassination attempt - while one source inside the prison colony where Navalny died has claimed he was likely killed by a single punch to the heart.
Vladimir Osechkin, a Russian exile and human rights campaigner, said bruising found on the opposition leader's body was consistent with the 'one-punch' execution method popular among agents of the Soviet Union's KGB security service.
'It is an old method of the KGB's special forces divisions,' Osechkin told The Times.
'They trained their operatives to kill a man with one punch in the heart, in the centre of the body. It was a hallmark of the KGB.'
It doesn't take a keen Kremlin watcher to see Navalny's death as the latest in a long list of attempts to eradicate opponents of Putin over the years.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
n.b. Let's watch and see what happens to Navalny's brother.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13108089/putin-alexei-navalny-brother-oleg-warrant-arrest.html
Assassination has a long and illustrative history in Russia, all the way back to the Romanovs..
Fascinating how the putin apologists come out of the woodwork to tell us his death was anyone from CIA to Russian mafia, but not putins call.
Could see this, “czar putin, this man has become a problem “. Putin waves his hand, and the man leaves.
See, putin didn’t order anything…..
Life in a police state ... speak out, and you get whacked
#PutinsSadLegacy
#ThugSo-CalledLeadership
:(
Just ask Leon Trotsky. Oh, right...you can't.
For now...
You left out plane crashes...
Shades of old school WWF wrestler Stan Stasiak.
Exported practice to the USA too.
First thing I thought of when I read this. Stan “The Man” Stasiak and his Heart Punch. Classic wrestler from more than half a century ago.
Only in the Daily Mail can an anonymous source claim Navalny was LIKELY killed by a heart punch to the Daily Mail run the title that Navalny WAS killed by a heart punch.
Good grief.
Sure, it’s Putin, he doesn’t like challenges to his leadership, here in the USA we used to just shoot them, JFK, RFK and MLK are examples, lately we just put them in prison or farm out the killing to 3rd party countries, Julian Assange and Gonzalo Lira are more recent examples.
“The russian mafiastate is every bit as deadly as the Mexican cartelocracy, though the latter is a bit more brutal. At least the U.S. is still only in the lawfare/bancrupt/jail/ruin-the-lives of WEF’s political enemies phase.
For now...”
You forgot Arkancide.
Not nearly as imaginative as hillary’s methods.
And Polonium 210 Salads.................
At least the Moscow Murderers don't decapitate their victims.
Tens of thousands died in the months long failed assaults on Andvika
The Daily Mail would have similar credibility on this story if they claimed his death was caused by the Vulcan Death Grip.
Chad, you post like a moronic leftest. Go away.
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