[watwut]

Imho, it is not just Putin. It is too easy and comfortable of an answer. It is more that Russia never really got rid of old communist structures in secret service, police, courts, you name it. So, the exact same old ways slipped back, although with new ideology. Russia in general never really denounced crimes of communism, it seems to be rehabilitating the regime instead. That despite a lot of Russian victims of communism being there too.

90ties meant more crime and poverty in post-communist countries. But, some countries managed to build democratic societies, even if often imperfect. Russia instead slipped back, because the old acts were more of forgotten then actually talked about and dealt with.

> Even his spy chief was fucked up [0] when he realized what's going to happen.

His spy chief was perfectly fine with quite a lot of things previously. His spy chief likely facilitated both some of the murders you mention and crackdown on political opposition going on for years. His spy chief must knew Russia army behavior (say deliberate bombing of hospitals) in Syria before, with war going on from 2014, with a lot of things you mentioned.

[krzyk]

It is deeper than that (as shown in the story), it was like that during the Tzars also.

[eecc]

s/communist/Russian imperialist/g

git add .

git commit -m “there FIFY”

got push