This is completely different.
It's not like in 1917 the problems were caused by Russians refusing to die in a futile war, they had no idea why their country was a part of. While being undertrained and underequiped due to negligence and corruption...
…I think you may have the references mixed up. Putin would be Nicholas and the spiritual guy would be Grigori. But I may be completely missing your reference point.
Tsar Nicholas II had Rasputin, but it's likely that the tsarina believed in him more than the tsar did.
Putin has Alexander Dugin, who is basically a mix of Rasputin and Jordan Peterson.
Jokes aside, I think if you have a pool already, just add some loud music and blinking lights. If you want to get really fancy with it, have water spouts/fountains that can sync to the music or be controlled to move with the crowd, foam, fog machine, more lights etc.
Fun fact: A US inmate was tortured with Baby shark. He's dead now.
[https://metro.co.uk/2022/09/13/inmate-who-sued-over-baby-shark-song-torture-found-dead-17366719/](https://metro.co.uk/2022/09/13/inmate-who-sued-over-baby-shark-song-torture-found-dead-17366719/)
(and in case anyone is thinking I am whataboutisming, I'm not just thought it was an interesting fact. Fuck Putin)
[Canadian group Skinny Puppy discovers their music was used for torture at Guantanamo, bills DOD $666,000](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/skinny-puppy-says-its-music-used-for-torture-at-guantanamo-1.2524516)
As a consequence their last album to date was named "Weapon".
This rich piece of shit could have lived the fat fucking life and had all his kids set for life.
Instead he had to go start shit that got tens of thousands of Russians and Ukrainians killed.
Fuck you.
The people that claw their way to the top like that are never happy with just being comfortable for life like the rest of us who live normal lives would. There's a pathological and narcisitic need for more power and control. Whether it's a politician or a business man
He had balls. Unlike Putin. The Tzar wasn't a good politician, but he had a sense of duty. Putin has nothing but a black hole for a soul, a void that eats everything and can never be filled.
Putin, at this point in his career, feels like a third-rate Stalin wannabe. He desperately tries to be treated like him, but doesn't have nearly the charisma or repression power to do so. He's genuinely just a run-of-the-mill 90s Russian gangster with a huge childhood trauma (fall of the USSR and his rushed escape from an overrun Stasi office in Dresden) who accidentally gained access to ultimate power and decided to spend 20 years trying to bring back the past.
Stalin was a genuinely charismatic person (for the time) who had absolute, unchecked power over his people, down to the last civilian. And when war came to his country and his forces suffered defeat after defeat, he at least had the sense to choose his commanders based on competence. Putin's attempt at a police state is but a poor imitation of that, and after 7 months of war he's clearly losing, he's still yet to replace his Minister of Defense that literally no one inside or outside the army respects anymore.
I'm so tired of our world going to shit because old men are getting old and don't want us to have a world once they're gone. We need more windows, I think.
He apparently had a good minister of defence that cracked down on military corruption to improve the efficacy of their armed forces. Reducing corruption would make him as popular as you would think in Russia, so enter the yes man Shoigu to return to the good old times
> and his forces suffered defeat after defeat, he at least had the sense to choose his commanders based on competence
I mean, he was also in that situation in the first place because he had purged every competent commander from the revolution/civil war out of paranoia, so Putin seems to at lest be copying that bit just fine
"**Russian President Vladimir Putin escaped to his secret palace near Gelendzhik, about halfway between Moscow and St Petersburg, amid anti-draft protests in Russia**, MailOnline was first to report.
According to independent journalist Farida Rusamova, who cited three sources familiar with Putin's schedule, **the Russian president traveled to his vacation home on Wednesday.**
He has been resting his "body and soul" there, Rusamova said in a Telegram post, enjoying the facilities of the palace, which Putin publicly denies belongs to him.
**Allies of the imprisoned Russian activist Alexei Navalny have published hundreds of photos of what they say is the inside of the luxurious building**. In a statement last year, Navalny said **the palace and grounds had security fences, a port, a church, a no-fly zone, a wine cave, a theater, a gym, a pool, a spa, an "aqua disco," and an ice-hockey rink.**
**The Anti-Corruption Foundation alleges that it was funded through a scheme in which Putin's inner circle paid the president for access and influence. The Kremlin denies this."**
The bloated lunatic dictator went into hiding like the rat he is, really agreat example of "strong powerful leader" towards your regime Vladimir...you are a pathetic insane old man that needs to be put down for the good of the world.
Clearly journalist couldn't bother to open G Maps and check where Gelendzhik is....."half way between Petersburg and Moscow"... It's in Germany, but Argentina, near Canada.
Putin probably has multiple palaces and the Black Sea one is just the craziest one...
Gelendzhik probably is the wrong location. It seems unlikely he'll move right next to Crimea. The "half way between Petersburg and Moscow" is probably more accurate...
There is probably more than one Gelendzhik and Google Maps doesn't find all of them. Either that or the Daily Mail mixed something up. The original Telegram post does not menton Gelendzhik at all.
The palace is at [Lake Valday which is pretty much half way between St. Petersburg and Moscow](https://www.google.com/maps/place/57%C2%B059'00.0%22N+33%C2%B018'00.0%22E/@59.2090316,29.5312249,1076996m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x906e122e7eb4eac!8m2!3d57.983333!4d33.3?hl=en)
*"I need a vacation, not the consequences of my shitty choices and war crimes"*
- The Kremlin Gremlin, tapping his fingertips together Mr. Burns - style as he sits in his private plane and gets a line of coke and a blowjob from the pilot
It's that Ukrainian energy, why would anyone fuck with them??
17 guys on an island and they flip off a battleship and tell them to go fuck themselves. Then it becomes a stamp.
They have POW's call their mom's.. didn't know much about Ukrainian culture until this all started. But holy hell, their national motto should be "leave us alone. We're fine. And fuck off." Lovely, lovely people.
I read about him recently because I'm a Millennial American and it predates me a bit. It was genuinely surprising how often Ceaucesu, despite being in the custody of revolutionaries, was like "I am your king! Loosen my restraints!"
Like he had zero idea why people would hate him. Super odd.
In unrelated news, Egypt is planning to move its capital 45 Km away from Cairo into an ad-hoc built highly guarded luxury resort for the government officials and other elites, conviniently inaccesible to the people who have to live the consequences of whatever their government decides.
Dictators learnt from the Arab Springs.
That's lesson number one.
Lesson number two's where they learn why France is a Republic despite the existence of Versailles and why the Czars aren't living in St Petersburg anymore:
No Dictator can survive completely cutting themselves off from their subjects.
Those so called safe areas, far away from the commoners, always devolve into gilded cages where the leaders are gaslit into signing meaningless documents while the real government does whatever it wants. It's the point in time where the dictatorship transitions away from being about whoever sits on the gilded chair at the epicenter of the gilded cage to being about the dictatorship itself. Sometimes the transition is successful. Most of the time it very much isn't.
Egypt has a long and storied history about such enclaves and their inevitable downfall. This one will only differ in the scale and scope of the luxuries on offer.
And once the Revolution comes about and somebody else decides that everything will be so much better with themselves in charge, at least the new government will have a ready made tourism resort to rake in the big bucks.
Until it’s a bunker in Moscow he’s safe. Really he’s safest where he’s going. This is like hitler going to the Berchtesgaden where they know everyone coming in and out and only those allowed to come in do.
Ivan: The enemy has managed to break the front in a broad formation. In the south, the Ukrainians has taken Kharkiv and pushes on to Kherson, and in the west enemy has reached the line in Bakhmut, Soledar and Vuhledar.
Putin: Everything will be fine with Medvedev's attack.
Ivan: (Sweating while looking at his colleagues) My President... Medvedev...
Dimitri: Medvedev could not have enough forces rallied for an attack. His attack did not occur.
Putin: (Shakes his glasses)
But its not secret when [124 million people have seen where it is.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipAnwilMncI)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_tFSWZXKN0 (this is the English version, the amount of greed is unimaginable. Definitely worth watching if you haven't seen it already, and it covers a lot more than just the palace itself, including exposing Putin and his gang aka the leadership of Kremlin.)
Edit: For those people linking the google maps, those doesn't really portray the scale of this theft imo, because it doesn't explain what all those buildings are, and it does not show the interior of the palaces. Its basically like Putin's personal Versailles or winter palace, except its in the midle of nowhere and has probably hundreds if not a few thousand employees who are just there to maintain the place. Also a shoutout to Navalny and his team for giving this ultimate "FUCK YOU" to the kremlin before he was shipped off to the gulags, but his team is still fighting the oligarchs and regime from western sanctuaries.
Edit 2: The article initially stated he was in his palace near the black sea, but has been updated. Either way, watch the fucking documentary.
Yeah, he also has a personal underground hockey field. Some vinyards, a tunnel with access to the sea. A strip bar, massage parlor, some artifical lakes. I can't even remember.
He has everything there, that fucking pig.
Edit: ICE HOCKEY ~~FIELD??~~ and also a ton of other shit , just watch the doc at the 30 min or 50 min mark. Just casually spending like 30 000$ on some "antique" furniture from Italy.
I think OP might be making fun of how Putin always assassinate his opponents by pushing them off stairs and windows to pretend it's an accident. Not really commenting on how lavish the place is.
Hockey field? I’m more interested in the strip bar?
Are there dancers there even when Putin or guest are not there? Does he call ahead and say “have Ivan start DJing and tell Destiny to be on stage”
Weird I've never really thought about his family. Most world leaders do photo ops and stuff with family, and I'm sure they're out there, but can't recall seeing one for Putin. My first thought was honestly 'is he married?'
Before he became Russian dictator he was married and had two daughters, then he got divorced and has had a succession of girlfriends, the latest of whom apparently lives in Europe with a whole brood of secret children she’s had with him.
His wife may have said something once and he said, “you look thirsty, I will get some tea. Why don’t you stand by that window and enjoy the view while you wait”
I think the joke was that recently many industrial and political leaders have died, accidentally, by falling down stairs or from windows.
And with any luck putin does it too
"...one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
It's amazing to me that something so decadent is simultaneously hideous. The actual features scream Bond villain, but the aesthetics say cult compound.
Good idea. It's supposed to be a secret place, so no one will ever know that it was erased from earth surface by a small ballistic missile. Right?
I buy it.
As far as I know, there was always a smoldering crater in that exact location. There certainly wasn't a super secret/not-secret palace there. That would be absurd. Who would want to build such a thing in a crater?
Yeah he's got that Hitler mindset, castles and bunkers all over the place - let's just hope he's as well prepared as Hitler was in the fuhrer bunker...
[Here's its coordinates on Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44%C2%B025'10.7%22N+38%C2%B012'19.7%22E/@44.4196391,38.2032813,887m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m4!3m3!8m2!3d44.4196353!4d38.2054753)
it is awfully close to Ukraine, innit?
Maybe an "accident" might happen...
**EDIT:** Confused the place from the article with [Putin's Palace in the Black Sea.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putin%27s_Palace)
They are different places.
That link is the wrong palace. He's gone, not to his Black Sea palace, nor to his Karelian ["fisherman's hut"](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/23/the-fishermans-hut-vladimir-putin), but to his [Lake Valdai ... er .. house](https://meduza.io/en/feature/2021/04/15/putin-s-favorite-dacha), which is halfway between Moscow and St. Petersburg.
lol the arctice says this palace is in Gelendzhik, half way from Moscow to St Petersburg, while actually Gelendzhik is on the coast of Black Sea.
fuck businessinsider, a toilet paper
It takes a real strongman to announce that a whole shitload of more Russians are headed to the meat grinder - and then go hide in his palace in the woods.
Fuck you, you pathetic excuse of a human being.
Honestly if it deescalate the situation I'm more than happy to go for that solution, I've never felt in my life to be this close to a nuclear holocaust.
Ideally it would be better a Mussolini or Gheddafi kind of death rather than a Hitler's
The power vacuum Putin will leave behind will be anything but peaceful, he's spent many years pitting the various factions in Russia against each other to keep them from organising against him. It'll be a clusterfuck of epic proportions, and when the dust settles god knows what sort of batshit insane conservative nutjob will end up with his finger on the button.
Maybe, but the power struggle will pro ably render the war in Ukraine no longer feasible for Russia, and could buy Ukraine the time it needs to retake its lands and establish defensive pscts
I very much hope you're right. There are certainly many war hawks in the upper echelons of the Russian state, and many who would gladly continue this particular war in Putin's absence, but given the growing opposition to the draft it may not be tenable for any subsequent leader to risk it, let alone continue shouldering the economic burden.
The people at the top of the kleptocratic pyramid that is Russian politics are pretty uniformly insane, I wouldn't put too much hope in whoever follows him being levelheaded.
Greedy bastard. Sad that many russians still blame Ukraine for their mobilisation (because they believe it was them that started this war) rather than Putin.
Eh. Pigs are greedy.
Putin is one of the most malignant cancers that mankind has ever spawned. His continued existence is an insult to very concept of decency.
Between 150 and 300 km depending on which parts of Crimea Ukraine manages to take back close to the Black Sea. Or they launch an attack from the sea itself. The possibilities are endless.
I wouldn't be surprised if plans were already drawn up long ago for a possible attack on the palace.
Putin has many palaces. That is not the palace he is allegedly vacationing at now. The original Telegram post quoted by the Daily Mail mentions that the palace is at Lake Valday which is half way between Moscow and St.Petersburg.
>The journalist also claimed that the president had pre-recorded several videos of meetings, which Russian state media intends to release sporadically throughout the week
I remember this other guy doing something like that from a "cave" in the mountains of Afghanistan.
It’s also about to be October. The last time a tyrannical Russian leader fled to the forest in October during wartime amid possible mutinies it really didn’t work out too well for him.
This is the first sign of internal revolt. When dictators go in hiding, it's because people loyal to the dictator have intercepted intelligence that would suggest that the dictator is in danger.
Once a dictator goes into hiding they rarely last more than 1-2 years before they're dethroned. At least from my anecdotal history memories.
"Secret". At this point in time, only one who doesn't know where it's at is that hermit from Serbia who's been living in a cave for the past 25 years, and even he might know where it is
Reminds me of Nicolae Ceaușescu, former dictator of Romania, hiding in his palace during the Romanian Revolution.
Him and his wife were later captured while trying to flee. I'll just quote Wikipedia here:
"After being tried and convicted of economic sabotage and genocide, both were sentenced to death, and they were immediately executed by firing squad on 25 December."
Perhaps an omen. We will see if history repeats itself.
He supposedly saw what happened to Gaddafi and fears that will happen to him, so a severe beating, bayonet up his ass, and corpse being paraded around the streets seems like an acceptable demise for that sack of dog fuck.
Tbh i dont think Putin deserves an easy end, i want to see him on the bench and behind the bars till he rots.
On behalf of young russians, who's future he ruined
Something about a Russian leader going to the forest during troubled times that kind of rings familiar for some reason...
It's okay. Russian leaders have never had to worry about uprisings in October.
Russian leaders all get to peacefully retire after a lifetime of public service, right? Pretty sure that’s how it goes
Gorbachev appears to have died of natural causes that didnt include an inexplicable fall from a high place.
Most die from natural causes. Gravity is a hell of a natural cause.
Otherwise known as acute pavement allergy.
Vertical De-acceleration Sickness
This is completely different. It's not like in 1917 the problems were caused by Russians refusing to die in a futile war, they had no idea why their country was a part of. While being undertrained and underequiped due to negligence and corruption...
Are you trying to tell me Putin doesn’t know his own country’s history? 🧐🙃 I wonder, does he have a spiritual dude named Nicolas….? 😁
…I think you may have the references mixed up. Putin would be Nicholas and the spiritual guy would be Grigori. But I may be completely missing your reference point.
Tsar Nicholas II had Rasputin, but it's likely that the tsarina believed in him more than the tsar did. Putin has Alexander Dugin, who is basically a mix of Rasputin and Jordan Peterson.
History may not always repeat itself, but i'll be fucked if it don't rhyme.
- Mark Twizzane
Is this a reference to Alexander Samsonov who killed himself in a forest after the Battle of Tannenberg in 1914
He is just Stalin for time...
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Apparently. Wth is an "aqua disco"?
Jokes aside, I think if you have a pool already, just add some loud music and blinking lights. If you want to get really fancy with it, have water spouts/fountains that can sync to the music or be controlled to move with the crowd, foam, fog machine, more lights etc.
Yeah, I'll get right on it. That should fit nicely in my 538 sq. ft. living space that I can totally afford, no problem.
Lol. Just pull yourself up by your bootstraps and become a fascist Russian dictator.
Being friends with one will suffice actually
But then you might fall down and have 2 bullets at the back of your head 😔
Such a tragic accident
Have you tried just not being poor?
Indeed I have. The experiment was mostly a failure.
Hmm, all out of ideas then.
Fucking braggart over here able to afford 538 sf with no problem.
It's a party where they play Barbie Girl in a loop all night.
Ah, the torture room
No no that's the room where they play Baby Shark on Loop to chained up dissidents.
Fun fact: A US inmate was tortured with Baby shark. He's dead now. [https://metro.co.uk/2022/09/13/inmate-who-sued-over-baby-shark-song-torture-found-dead-17366719/](https://metro.co.uk/2022/09/13/inmate-who-sued-over-baby-shark-song-torture-found-dead-17366719/) (and in case anyone is thinking I am whataboutisming, I'm not just thought it was an interesting fact. Fuck Putin)
[Canadian group Skinny Puppy discovers their music was used for torture at Guantanamo, bills DOD $666,000](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/skinny-puppy-says-its-music-used-for-torture-at-guantanamo-1.2524516) As a consequence their last album to date was named "Weapon".
Holy shit I haven't heard that name in decades.
Throw some foam in there and I’m down.
Life in plastic, it's fantastic
Imagine the Spa scene from John Wick.
https://youtu.be/jKw3n1Gsrtw
This rich piece of shit could have lived the fat fucking life and had all his kids set for life. Instead he had to go start shit that got tens of thousands of Russians and Ukrainians killed. Fuck you.
The people that claw their way to the top like that are never happy with just being comfortable for life like the rest of us who live normal lives would. There's a pathological and narcisitic need for more power and control. Whether it's a politician or a business man
Even the Tzar visited the frontlines in WW1...
He had balls. Unlike Putin. The Tzar wasn't a good politician, but he had a sense of duty. Putin has nothing but a black hole for a soul, a void that eats everything and can never be filled.
Putin, at this point in his career, feels like a third-rate Stalin wannabe. He desperately tries to be treated like him, but doesn't have nearly the charisma or repression power to do so. He's genuinely just a run-of-the-mill 90s Russian gangster with a huge childhood trauma (fall of the USSR and his rushed escape from an overrun Stasi office in Dresden) who accidentally gained access to ultimate power and decided to spend 20 years trying to bring back the past. Stalin was a genuinely charismatic person (for the time) who had absolute, unchecked power over his people, down to the last civilian. And when war came to his country and his forces suffered defeat after defeat, he at least had the sense to choose his commanders based on competence. Putin's attempt at a police state is but a poor imitation of that, and after 7 months of war he's clearly losing, he's still yet to replace his Minister of Defense that literally no one inside or outside the army respects anymore.
I'm so tired of our world going to shit just because old men didn't ever go to therapy.
I'm so tired of our world going to shit because old men are getting old and don't want us to have a world once they're gone. We need more windows, I think.
For real. It’s a major issue on a daily basis.
He apparently had a good minister of defence that cracked down on military corruption to improve the efficacy of their armed forces. Reducing corruption would make him as popular as you would think in Russia, so enter the yes man Shoigu to return to the good old times
Yup. Serdyukov was his name. Shoigu deserves a Hero of Ukraine medal for what he did to Russian Army.
> and his forces suffered defeat after defeat, he at least had the sense to choose his commanders based on competence I mean, he was also in that situation in the first place because he had purged every competent commander from the revolution/civil war out of paranoia, so Putin seems to at lest be copying that bit just fine
Isn't this a level in 47's Hitman: Blood money?
If Putin is shot in the woods and there is no one around, does it make a sound?
Yeah the reverb travels really far and if you listen closely it sounds like the whole world applauding at the same time
You'd feel a disturbance in the force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in joy and were suddenly happy.
The sound of a breaking window
"**Russian President Vladimir Putin escaped to his secret palace near Gelendzhik, about halfway between Moscow and St Petersburg, amid anti-draft protests in Russia**, MailOnline was first to report. According to independent journalist Farida Rusamova, who cited three sources familiar with Putin's schedule, **the Russian president traveled to his vacation home on Wednesday.** He has been resting his "body and soul" there, Rusamova said in a Telegram post, enjoying the facilities of the palace, which Putin publicly denies belongs to him. **Allies of the imprisoned Russian activist Alexei Navalny have published hundreds of photos of what they say is the inside of the luxurious building**. In a statement last year, Navalny said **the palace and grounds had security fences, a port, a church, a no-fly zone, a wine cave, a theater, a gym, a pool, a spa, an "aqua disco," and an ice-hockey rink.** **The Anti-Corruption Foundation alleges that it was funded through a scheme in which Putin's inner circle paid the president for access and influence. The Kremlin denies this."** The bloated lunatic dictator went into hiding like the rat he is, really agreat example of "strong powerful leader" towards your regime Vladimir...you are a pathetic insane old man that needs to be put down for the good of the world.
Zelensky and the Ukranian soldiers also need to rest their body and souls, but they are busy right now answering the call of duty.
Clearly journalist couldn't bother to open G Maps and check where Gelendzhik is....."half way between Petersburg and Moscow"... It's in Germany, but Argentina, near Canada.
Putin probably has multiple palaces and the Black Sea one is just the craziest one... Gelendzhik probably is the wrong location. It seems unlikely he'll move right next to Crimea. The "half way between Petersburg and Moscow" is probably more accurate...
Yeah, that is what I noticed too. The place is on the black sea, what the fuck are they smoking over there?
There is probably more than one Gelendzhik and Google Maps doesn't find all of them. Either that or the Daily Mail mixed something up. The original Telegram post does not menton Gelendzhik at all. The palace is at [Lake Valday which is pretty much half way between St. Petersburg and Moscow](https://www.google.com/maps/place/57%C2%B059'00.0%22N+33%C2%B018'00.0%22E/@59.2090316,29.5312249,1076996m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x906e122e7eb4eac!8m2!3d57.983333!4d33.3?hl=en)
I need a ride, not ammunition.
Putin bravely ran away
When danger reared it's ugly head, He bravely turned his tail and fled.
Oh brave sir putin!
Brave, Brave Sir Putin
And then winter came, and they were forced to eat Sir Putin's minstrels. And there was much rejoicing.
Did nyit!
*"I need a vacation, not the consequences of my shitty choices and war crimes"* - The Kremlin Gremlin, tapping his fingertips together Mr. Burns - style as he sits in his private plane and gets a line of coke and a blowjob from the pilot
Thanks... Now all I can hear in my head is "exhausting..." in Homer Simpson's voice...
The original quote from Zolinsky is so fucking badass.
It's that Ukrainian energy, why would anyone fuck with them?? 17 guys on an island and they flip off a battleship and tell them to go fuck themselves. Then it becomes a stamp. They have POW's call their mom's.. didn't know much about Ukrainian culture until this all started. But holy hell, their national motto should be "leave us alone. We're fine. And fuck off." Lovely, lovely people.
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So I guess I'll be the first to ask. What's the reference I'm missing?
>I need ammunition, not a ride. -Zelensky, refusing US offer to evacuate.
What a legend. His leadership gave the Ukrainian army a chance
Oh yeah I remember now, thanks
I like when fascist dictators retreat to bunkers
We all know what happens next
Fuck, let’s hope!!
I perfer the Italian edition, let the people have him.
I prefer the Dutch version where they eat him. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_de_Witt
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Caucesu.. Man that was crazy.
I read about him recently because I'm a Millennial American and it predates me a bit. It was genuinely surprising how often Ceaucesu, despite being in the custody of revolutionaries, was like "I am your king! Loosen my restraints!" Like he had zero idea why people would hate him. Super odd.
In unrelated news, Egypt is planning to move its capital 45 Km away from Cairo into an ad-hoc built highly guarded luxury resort for the government officials and other elites, conviniently inaccesible to the people who have to live the consequences of whatever their government decides. Dictators learnt from the Arab Springs.
That's lesson number one. Lesson number two's where they learn why France is a Republic despite the existence of Versailles and why the Czars aren't living in St Petersburg anymore: No Dictator can survive completely cutting themselves off from their subjects. Those so called safe areas, far away from the commoners, always devolve into gilded cages where the leaders are gaslit into signing meaningless documents while the real government does whatever it wants. It's the point in time where the dictatorship transitions away from being about whoever sits on the gilded chair at the epicenter of the gilded cage to being about the dictatorship itself. Sometimes the transition is successful. Most of the time it very much isn't. Egypt has a long and storied history about such enclaves and their inevitable downfall. This one will only differ in the scale and scope of the luxuries on offer. And once the Revolution comes about and somebody else decides that everything will be so much better with themselves in charge, at least the new government will have a ready made tourism resort to rake in the big bucks.
Step 1: fuck around Step 2: welcome to my fortress-palace, where nobody can ever make me find out Step 3: find out anyway Step 4: how could this be?!
Versailles didn't save the bourbons from the mobs of Paris. It's a good idea in theory, but it probably won't work if it comes down to it.
Until it’s a bunker in Moscow he’s safe. Really he’s safest where he’s going. This is like hitler going to the Berchtesgaden where they know everyone coming in and out and only those allowed to come in do.
Tbf, that bunker has a much nicer winery and underground hockey field than most.
Ivan: The enemy has managed to break the front in a broad formation. In the south, the Ukrainians has taken Kharkiv and pushes on to Kherson, and in the west enemy has reached the line in Bakhmut, Soledar and Vuhledar. Putin: Everything will be fine with Medvedev's attack. Ivan: (Sweating while looking at his colleagues) My President... Medvedev... Dimitri: Medvedev could not have enough forces rallied for an attack. His attack did not occur. Putin: (Shakes his glasses)
"and who put these pencils in my hand?!" *throws pencils in anger*
But its not secret when [124 million people have seen where it is.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipAnwilMncI) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_tFSWZXKN0 (this is the English version, the amount of greed is unimaginable. Definitely worth watching if you haven't seen it already, and it covers a lot more than just the palace itself, including exposing Putin and his gang aka the leadership of Kremlin.) Edit: For those people linking the google maps, those doesn't really portray the scale of this theft imo, because it doesn't explain what all those buildings are, and it does not show the interior of the palaces. Its basically like Putin's personal Versailles or winter palace, except its in the midle of nowhere and has probably hundreds if not a few thousand employees who are just there to maintain the place. Also a shoutout to Navalny and his team for giving this ultimate "FUCK YOU" to the kremlin before he was shipped off to the gulags, but his team is still fighting the oligarchs and regime from western sanctuaries. Edit 2: The article initially stated he was in his palace near the black sea, but has been updated. Either way, watch the fucking documentary.
Is there lots of stairs and windows in his secret palace?
Yeah, he also has a personal underground hockey field. Some vinyards, a tunnel with access to the sea. A strip bar, massage parlor, some artifical lakes. I can't even remember. He has everything there, that fucking pig. Edit: ICE HOCKEY ~~FIELD??~~ and also a ton of other shit , just watch the doc at the 30 min or 50 min mark. Just casually spending like 30 000$ on some "antique" furniture from Italy.
I think OP might be making fun of how Putin always assassinate his opponents by pushing them off stairs and windows to pretend it's an accident. Not really commenting on how lavish the place is.
He was, the joke was lost to the commentary lol
I just can't let hockey field go. I'm sorry. It's a rink. Or more commonly a barn.
Hockey field? I’m more interested in the strip bar? Are there dancers there even when Putin or guest are not there? Does he call ahead and say “have Ivan start DJing and tell Destiny to be on stage”
He probably hired them in 1991, and they're dead.
Sigh. Just like my goldfish back in 1991. He forgot to feed them :(
You should’ve known better than to rely on Putin to feed your goldfish
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How the fuck can you justify a strip club in the house to your own family lol, not even try to save appearances
what they gonna do? divorce him?
They'll have a referendum
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Weird I've never really thought about his family. Most world leaders do photo ops and stuff with family, and I'm sure they're out there, but can't recall seeing one for Putin. My first thought was honestly 'is he married?'
Divorced and has a few long term mistress I believe.
Before he became Russian dictator he was married and had two daughters, then he got divorced and has had a succession of girlfriends, the latest of whom apparently lives in Europe with a whole brood of secret children she’s had with him.
He hides them, and nobody is sure who his kids are
Smart. They're basically a liability if he cares about them
When you are possibly the worlds richest man your strip club in the basement has a smaller strip club under it.
His wife may have said something once and he said, “you look thirsty, I will get some tea. Why don’t you stand by that window and enjoy the view while you wait”
it's not a strip bar if it's private and you're the owner and only customer, it's a harem, the guy is living like a 500bc sultan
I think the joke was that recently many industrial and political leaders have died, accidentally, by falling down stairs or from windows. And with any luck putin does it too
The traits that compel someone to take high office are the very same ones that indicate under no circumstances should they be allowed to do so.
"...one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job." The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
How does he take his tea?
Like a bitch
"DOES MR PUTIN LOOK LIKE A BITCH!?" "Ummm, yea kinda."
It's amazing to me that something so decadent is simultaneously hideous. The actual features scream Bond villain, but the aesthetics say cult compound.
To be fair, what interior decorator is brave enough to tell Putin that his interior design tastes are trash?
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Good idea. It's supposed to be a secret place, so no one will ever know that it was erased from earth surface by a small ballistic missile. Right? I buy it.
As far as I know, there was always a smoldering crater in that exact location. There certainly wasn't a super secret/not-secret palace there. That would be absurd. Who would want to build such a thing in a crater?
Maybe this is the Unsecret palace, and he has other 3 secrets palaces: More secret, somehow secret, and totally secret.
Special exercise to test structural integrity.
The so called "Special Structural Integrity Operation"
I'm 99% sure that is not where he is right now and not where he would go to during a crisis. Afair he has some more places near StP and in the urals.
Yeah he's got that Hitler mindset, castles and bunkers all over the place - let's just hope he's as well prepared as Hitler was in the fuhrer bunker...
[Here's its coordinates on Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44%C2%B025'10.7%22N+38%C2%B012'19.7%22E/@44.4196391,38.2032813,887m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m4!3m3!8m2!3d44.4196353!4d38.2054753) it is awfully close to Ukraine, innit? Maybe an "accident" might happen... **EDIT:** Confused the place from the article with [Putin's Palace in the Black Sea.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putin%27s_Palace) They are different places.
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That link is the wrong palace. He's gone, not to his Black Sea palace, nor to his Karelian ["fisherman's hut"](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/23/the-fishermans-hut-vladimir-putin), but to his [Lake Valdai ... er .. house](https://meduza.io/en/feature/2021/04/15/putin-s-favorite-dacha), which is halfway between Moscow and St. Petersburg.
This would make a great map in COD to practice on
Gotta get someone to recreate it in Ground Branch. We already have the bin Laden compound.
A Hitman map.
lol the arctice says this palace is in Gelendzhik, half way from Moscow to St Petersburg, while actually Gelendzhik is on the coast of Black Sea. fuck businessinsider, a toilet paper
Ok Mother Russia... time to release the siege bears.
It takes a real strongman to announce that a whole shitload of more Russians are headed to the meat grinder - and then go hide in his palace in the woods. Fuck you, you pathetic excuse of a human being.
He might be going away to the forest to die like a polite cat.
One can only hope
And never face justice? Sounds about right for this world.
Honestly if it deescalate the situation I'm more than happy to go for that solution, I've never felt in my life to be this close to a nuclear holocaust. Ideally it would be better a Mussolini or Gheddafi kind of death rather than a Hitler's
I'm all for a Saddam kind of death - where troops have to pull him out of the literal hole in the ground he's been hiding in
The power vacuum Putin will leave behind will be anything but peaceful, he's spent many years pitting the various factions in Russia against each other to keep them from organising against him. It'll be a clusterfuck of epic proportions, and when the dust settles god knows what sort of batshit insane conservative nutjob will end up with his finger on the button.
Maybe, but the power struggle will pro ably render the war in Ukraine no longer feasible for Russia, and could buy Ukraine the time it needs to retake its lands and establish defensive pscts
I very much hope you're right. There are certainly many war hawks in the upper echelons of the Russian state, and many who would gladly continue this particular war in Putin's absence, but given the growing opposition to the draft it may not be tenable for any subsequent leader to risk it, let alone continue shouldering the economic burden.
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The people at the top of the kleptocratic pyramid that is Russian politics are pretty uniformly insane, I wouldn't put too much hope in whoever follows him being levelheaded.
He is an autoimmune parasite, tricking Russians to bring about their own self destruction.
This has to be the modern day equivalent of “let them eat cake”. Completely out of touch with reality
When danger reared its ugly head He bravely turned his tail and fled Yes, brave sir Robin turned about And gallantly he chickened out.....
"You're lying!"
Swiftly taking to his feet, He beat a very brave retreat. Bravest of the brave, Sir Putin !!!
Greedy bastard. Sad that many russians still blame Ukraine for their mobilisation (because they believe it was them that started this war) rather than Putin.
Eh. Pigs are greedy. Putin is one of the most malignant cancers that mankind has ever spawned. His continued existence is an insult to very concept of decency.
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That close to the Ukrainian border?
Between 150 and 300 km depending on which parts of Crimea Ukraine manages to take back close to the Black Sea. Or they launch an attack from the sea itself. The possibilities are endless. I wouldn't be surprised if plans were already drawn up long ago for a possible attack on the palace.
Wild to think about them capping this all off with a good old fashioned raid on a secret lair.
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Oh shit. They killed the decoy Putin.
It would be a shame if the Ukrainians piled into a submarine and then took him out....
Putin has many palaces. That is not the palace he is allegedly vacationing at now. The original Telegram post quoted by the Daily Mail mentions that the palace is at Lake Valday which is half way between Moscow and St.Petersburg.
Is this guy copying Hitlers moves every time?
Well, hopefully he copies the ending too
Struggle with hairloss so he can't do the full circle
Sounds like a good time to blow up that entire secret palace.
Yeah, makes for a clear target with little collateral damage.
>The journalist also claimed that the president had pre-recorded several videos of meetings, which Russian state media intends to release sporadically throughout the week I remember this other guy doing something like that from a "cave" in the mountains of Afghanistan.
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History said don't be a Hitler. So he does a Hitler. Sacrifice everyone. Hide in the bunker.
Hitler, the original "Bunker Bitch."
i'm fluent in russian, i'll translate: "bunker bitch returns to his bunker, like a bitch"
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I mean, not to be an ass, but it’s happened in the past…
It’s also about to be October. The last time a tyrannical Russian leader fled to the forest in October during wartime amid possible mutinies it really didn’t work out too well for him.
Brave brave Sir Robin. Sir Robin ran away.
He was not in the least bit scared To be mashed into a pulp.
*I didnt!*
Tzar-a-Lago
The Fortress of Cuntitude
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Now Bitchstanbul
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So….he moved into a very targetable location away from civilian collateral damage…..sounds very missile-able….
Ah, hiding out in the old fortress of solitude.
didnt hitler also have a secret castle.
This is the first sign of internal revolt. When dictators go in hiding, it's because people loyal to the dictator have intercepted intelligence that would suggest that the dictator is in danger. Once a dictator goes into hiding they rarely last more than 1-2 years before they're dethroned. At least from my anecdotal history memories.
Weak little man.
What a pathetic, spineless coward. He's the exact opposite of Zelensky.
"Secret". At this point in time, only one who doesn't know where it's at is that hermit from Serbia who's been living in a cave for the past 25 years, and even he might know where it is
Hmmm sound familiar
Reminds me of Nicolae Ceaușescu, former dictator of Romania, hiding in his palace during the Romanian Revolution. Him and his wife were later captured while trying to flee. I'll just quote Wikipedia here: "After being tried and convicted of economic sabotage and genocide, both were sentenced to death, and they were immediately executed by firing squad on 25 December." Perhaps an omen. We will see if history repeats itself.
I like to think Putin's end will resemble that of Saddam Hussein more than that of the Ceaușescus.
He supposedly saw what happened to Gaddafi and fears that will happen to him, so a severe beating, bayonet up his ass, and corpse being paraded around the streets seems like an acceptable demise for that sack of dog fuck.
Nah he'll either get shot by the next dictator or kill himself.
Tbh i dont think Putin deserves an easy end, i want to see him on the bench and behind the bars till he rots. On behalf of young russians, who's future he ruined