Is Vlad Putin Vlad the Impaler? It certainly seems so.
Last week you may recall the somewhat suspicious death of Boris Nemtsov a
prominent Russian politician and rival of President Vladimir Putin. He was shot
to death not too far from the Kremlin while crossing the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky
Bridge. The event was partially recorded via some form of CCTV, but another
vehicle was driving on the adjacent motorway conveniently obstructing the
actual shooting. Sounds like something out of a gangster movie; Tony Soprano
couldn’t have done it better. And while the death is being investigated a lot
of us can’t help wondering “did Putin do it?”
Nemtsov
was after all an outspoken critic of Putin and his government and if the grim
president had a hit list, he would probably have been in the top ten. And in
the past year we’ve been seeing Putin try to expand and consolidate power
particularly with his invasion of Ukraine, and so those kind of actions
generally create less tolerance to criticism. For a political leader like Putin
it does reflect his character that he would put a hit out on someone he didn’t
like.
That
being said it could be a misunderstanding. Nemtsov’s death could have just been
the result of those hitmen misunderstanding Putin’s complaints or jokes about
his opponent, much like the assassination of Thomas Becket in the 12th
century. Then again this is Russia where they’re very straightforward and jokes
aren’t something that happen.
Clearly
Putin’s gone maniacal with power and this assassination shows it. Not that he
wasn’t on the maniac side to begin with. No one’s going to forget how the man
who enforces one of the harshest sexuality persecuting legislations in the
world likes to ride horses shirtless with a face so stony you’d think he’s
auditioning to be Rock Biter in The
NeverEnding Story. And we’ve all drawn the parallels in his invasion of
Ukraine with another politician’s invasion of a country seventy-six years ago
right down to the excuse (I won’t say who but Charlie Chaplin probably played
him best-suitably as he stole Chaplin’s moustache style).
I
think Putin did have Nemtsov murdered and furthermore I think in the regime
he’s created for himself he’ll never be implicated. A couple Chechians seem to
already be taking the fall but we know the truth. But am I going too far?
Presuming too much? By calling Putin out on these accusations and his
questionable at best political actions, I too am a political enemy of his. But
I don’t care! He is a maniacal dictator who is a danger to his own and other
peoples; who won’t stop invading, posing, and murdering all those who disagree
with hi—
Wha—
ACK!!
*muffled garbage*
BANG!
…
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