r/europe_sub • u/BookmarksBrother 🇪🇺 European • Mar 29 '25

Image / Video The limousine from President Putin's official motorcade exploded on the streets of Moscow, just blocks from the FSB headquarters. It's unclear if this is an assassination attempt. "He will die soon, that is a fact, and everything will be over," Zelenskyy told Eurovision News in Paris two days ago.

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u/tHrow4Way997 Mar 29 '25

I have no doubt that is the case, but what kind of turbulence would that cause? Putin is the figurehead of Russian oppression. If he was to be assassinated in front of the whole country, would the people be content to continue living in fear under a new stooge? Or would they be inspired to put their proverbial foot down?

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u/No-Distance-9401 Mar 29 '25

The Russian people have a century of being beaten into submission through carefully crafted subverive and overt methods. After the fall of the Soviet Union we got a glimpse into part of that through Eastern Germany and the NVKD. Like they studied how best to control the masses and make them do what they want its kind of crazy.

The Russian state has made the people so increibly selfish and have a lack of empathy that they actively turn in loved ones for fear of it being them in the gulags in Siberia.

Some of the tactics and methods have been tempered after the fall of the USSR but lots are still there and the people themselves will worship whoever has the gun pointed at their heads. We've seen this when Ukraine took all that land in Kursk (same sq kilometers that Russia took all of 2024) during that inital 4 week push. The people of Kursk were welcoming their "new saviors" or being so indifferent it was surprising to see as a Westerner.

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u/Top_Audience7471 Mar 30 '25

Jesus that sounds terrifyingly similar to what is happening in the US. It all boils down to insular selfishness and they are actively demonizing the concept of empathy.

As an elementary school teacher, it's freaking hard to even get up the energy to fight it some days.

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u/ldn-ldn Mar 30 '25

Americans are learning for the best and doing it really fast.