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Russia states they have confirmed Prigozhin’s death, what do you believe happened? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by jeffw@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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This is a guy who was known to hire body doubles and he had numerous passports.

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[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Russian politics is a bit like watching a couple of pitbulls fighting under a carpet. You can certainly see movement, and hear that something is happening, but you don't really know what happened till you see the bones of the loser tossed back out.

That was said in the 30s or 40s by Churchill, and I probably butchered the quote, but it leads me to believe that this has been the state of Russia for a long time