Russia is shocking nobody by dropping the pretense that any political dissent is acceptable and returning to open totalitarianism. What should worry you is that he feels safe to do so.
He doesn’t even feel constrained by borders. Poisons opponents on foreign soil.
Or straight up shoots them.
Or imprision journalists on foreing ebassys for uncovering his war crimes
If you mention russia or putin, burguerlanders go ape mode instantly
Cry harder fascist
You must be mistaken, i dont support genocide joe
And thanks for proving my point
What happens when this dude dies? There’s no obvious succession plan.
Death of Stalin 2
Somewhere on the CIA Russia desk there’s a report that is always being updated that would tell you.
Same shit, different asshole
For more context - these were not contemporary photos but from the WWII era. The threat is pretty obvious though.