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[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Stalin tried to enforce the Lenin treatment for himself...

It doesn't always stick.

The next person to gain power is 100% going to clean house, because the Russian government is a pit of back biting vipers.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

You’re not worried that Putin is really just a puppet for all the oligarchs running the place now? Seems likely they’ll pick a new puppet.

[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They're all in it together, but the ones less loyal to Putin have a habit of dying.

Putin has had a bunch of them killed.

There's a great podcast called Sad Oligarch that goes over it all.

So yeah, Putin is not currently a puppet ruler.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

Good to know, I’ll check out that podcast. It sounds pretty interesting.

[–] Tuuktuuk@sopuli.xyz 1 points 10 months ago

A puppet is someone whose actions are fully steered from the outside.

Putin is a person chosen by KGB/FSB because he makes decisions that are very useful its leaders, but he retains a large amount of autonomy.