The fun steadily continues …
People commiting “Suicide” , “Falling out of Windows” and now , starting fires with cigarettes inside an upmarket Penthouse …
Everything is going according to plan. The more he purges his inner circle, the harder it will be to find a replacement for him when he is no more. Which increases the likelihood of a Chechen takeover and the Islamification of Russia.
Maybe Putin is getting demented like all dictators in times of prolonged wars. They start seeing enemies and traitors in everybody. They kill kill any illusion of a traitor until they have nobody left to kill. Slowly the close circle starts drifting away out of fear they might be next or failure to comprehend what the leader has become. He starts making erratic decisions without consulting and when put to task over it they blow a fuse. From here, it’s downhill to suicidetown
Inspired by age-old imperial policy, endless territorial expansion and impunity, Russia’s rulers have been destroying and assimilating indigenous peoples of captured territories for centuries.
One of the tools that Russia used and still uses against Ukrainians is deportation, which is forced resettlement, or expulsion from a permanent place of residence or from a country in general.
At various times, the Russians forcibly evicted representatives of various national communities from the territory of Ukraine…
Germans, Poles, Czechs, Jews …
But the indigenous peoples of Ukraine — Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars — suffered the most.
Deportations, as well as other crimes against national communities, were used by the authorities to punish and isolate sections of the population that were “unreliable” from the Russian point of view.
The forcibly removed people often became unpaid labor force….