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Sep 7 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Broke: Russian "liberalism"

Bespoke: Nuclear War Advocacy
This case illustrates how undesirable factoids are being suppressed. For example:

Fact 1

When arrested, Safronov wasn't a journalist. He was a PR adviser for Dmitry Rogozin, CEO of defence mega corporation Roskosmos. Whose fall from power coincided (?) with the case of Safronov
Fact 2

In 2014 @isafronov cheered and advocated for the annexation of Crimea. See his discussion with Kashin about some Ukrainian officers in Crimea changing sides:

Fact 3
Interestingly enough, hardly anyone is questioning authenticity of these factoids. If you read through the reactions to the last not a thread, you'll see tons of emotional posts "I'm offended"- style. But almost no factual counterclaims. The end

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Sep 8
Czech manufacturer TDZ Turn posted this hilarious public statement on their website. They were triggered because Yale researchers led by @JeffSonnenfeld included them into the list of Western companies continuing to operate in Russia.

TDZ Turn seem to be really scared. Why?🧵 Image
We never operated in Russia directly. We do not have business contacts there. After annexation of Crimea we limited our operations to the minimum and (God forbid!) didn't work with sanctioned companies

Our conscience is clear. Unlike that of the American Yale University Image
Why is TDZ Turn so triggered? Well, because they helped to build the Russian nuclear arsenal. Russian ICBM and SLBM production is concentrated in Roskosmos megaholding or more specifically in its two sub-holdings:

1) JSC MITT (solid-propellant)
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Sep 6
Everyone of some prominence and relevance in Russia has a dossier with charges & evidence against them. Absolutely everyone. They can keep these files forever or take them off the shelf, when deemed necessary

Ergo, it's absolutely irrelevant when the supposed crimes happened...
Only a date when they decided to indict you with the crime matters. Indictment = they take your dossier off the shelf and charge you with "crimes" they have collected for years

Safronov works in Kommersant = no one cares

He joins Roskosmos = They take his dossier off the shelf
I'm honestly amazed by so many Russian commenters promoting absolutely delusionary interpretations of Russian politics

Serdyukov is fired, his team purged:

"OMG, it's a CORRUPTION SCANDAL!"
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Sep 6
Yesterday Ivan Safronov was sentenced to 22 years in jail. Russian liberal media describe him as a "journalist" picturing it as Kremlin's crackdown on political opposition. That's misinformation. Safronov *used* to be a journalist. Then he worked in Roskosmos as Rogozin's advisor
Indeed, for many years Safronov worked as a journalist, first in Kommersant, then in Vedomosti. In May 2020 though he was hired by the Roskosmos state corporation, as a PR advisor of its CEO Dmitry Rogozin Image
Roskosmos is a defense megaholding, a product of Putin's consolidation of the military industrial compex. Rosatom is doing nuclear warheads, KTRV - cruise missiles, Almaz-Antey - air defence, Rostec - well, everything. Roskosmos is producing ballistic missiles, including ICBMs Image
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Sep 5
Milchakov, commander of "Rusich" group fighting for Russia in Ukraine:

"I'm a Nazi, I'm a Nazi. I won't elaborate whether I'm a nationalist, a patriot or imperialist. I say directly: I'm a Nazi. I can raise my hand in Nazi salute"

(interview to Provsvirnin, Sputnik and Pogrom)
Milchakov, commander of "Rusich" group:

"When you are going to war, that's sexual desire, it's like wanting to fuck... When you are killing a piglet, you savour his wife becoming a widow, his family grieving , him coming back home in a coffin. You have erection, don't you?"
Milchakov, commander of "Rusich" is an interesting person. He used to be a fan of the football club Zenit under a nickname "Fritz". In 2011 he became famous after uploading a video with himself killing a puppy, cutting of its heads and then eating it (photos are googlable) Image
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Sep 3
Now we associate Gorbachev with Perestroika, which in its turn is interpreted as nice Gorbachev being nice. In reality, in the beginning of his rule Gorbachev continued Andropov's Neo-Stalinist policies. But then the oil price dropped and didn't bounce back. Hence, Perestroika🧵 Image
Brezhnev's era is usually referred to as Застой, the Stagnation. If Khrushchev unironically aimed to build Communism, Brezhnev dropped any attempts to do so. High oil prices of the 1970s created illusion of prosperity, while in reality system was becoming less and less efficient Image
Khruchev saw Communism as a realistic goal. He even set a specific deadline - 1980. Brezhnev however, cut all the specific deadlines from the Party program. Future oriented paradigm (building Communism) died and the new, past-oriented one emerged. Worshipping the Great Victory Image
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Sep 2
See a declassified CIA report about the purchases for one single Soviet plant - KAMAZ truck producer. They aimed to buy the most modern Western equipment: from the foundries to the IBM computers. When the US imposed sanctions for Afghanistan invasion, they bought them in Europe
Well, the US embargo did pose *some* disruptive effect. But not for long: Soviets bypassed it through the Western Europe or Japan. The US could impose sanctions, yes. But their ability to enforce their allies to comply with them has been always very limited
Source

cia.gov/readingroom/do…
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