Exodus of Private Jets Out of Russia As Putin Calls for 'Self-Purification'

[RKP5637]

Newsweek - https://www.newsweek.com/private-jets-flee-russia-self-purification-1689055

An "exodus" of private jets—most bound for Dubai—left Russia on Thursday in the wake of Vladimir Putin's rant against westernized oligarchs on Wednesday.

In a televised address from the Kremlin, the Russian president warned: "I do not judge those with villas in Miami or the French Riviera. Or [those] who can't get by without oysters or foie gras or so-called 'gender freedoms.'

"The problem is they mentally exist there, and not here, with our people, with Russia.

"The West will try to bet on the so-called fifth column, on traitors… to divide our society… to strive to achieve its aim. And there is one aim—the destruction of Russia."

He went on to call for a "self-purification" of the nation.

Staff writer at The Atlantic, Anne Applebaum, wrote on Twitter afterwards: "Putin's call for a 'self-purification' of Russian society can have only one intention: To remind Russians of Stalin and his 'purges.'

"He wants them to be haunted by dark, ancestral memories, to remember their grandparents' stories and to be petrified with fear."

[Hekate]

1. "Self purification" sounds very ominous, in context

[RKP5637]

3. Absolutely! It sounds like extermination of those not towing the line laid by Putin. n/t

[Takket]

2. maybe putin can "purify" himself. i suggest leaping out of a 10th story window.

[RKP5637]

4. Yep, he accidentally fell out, or drank a radioactive cocktail by mistake. Great purification for

all to cleanse a disease.

[wcmagumba]

5. He's so full of s**t...west doesn't want "destruction" of Russia, just go back to your sh**hole...

country and stay there....

[RKP5637]

7. Exactly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! n/t

[Thomas Hurt]

6. Amazing how fascists use projection no matter language they speak.

Putin has lost it. Putin is a completely insane.

[usonian]

8. Projection is normal for the abnormal.

For a moment I thought he was talking about his fifth column here in the USA.

[aggiesal]

15. Yup, a 3rd world country with nukes ...

a powerful combination.

[PlutosHeart]

9. Did he purify those in his prisons?

Have to wonder since there are thousands arrested. And where are they? Could they possibly have that many prisons? Maybe that is the secret those fleeing know?

[Dan]

11. Oh yes, they have that many prisons and then some....

[UTUSN]

10. K&R

[BootinUp]

12. Putin is a bloodthirsty vampire

based on all the evidence.

[ificandream]

13. Let's see Repughs try to defend that crap.

[rpannier]

18. People like Kremlin Karlson will phrase it as Putin eliminating liberal and subversive

elements so Russia will belong to "Real Russians" again

[anarch]

21. yes, and they'd very much like to do the same in the U.S.

that's part of the essence of the MAGA mindset--that they are the ones who should be in charge and be catered to, because of their inherent divinely-granted superiority; and subconsciously they know that white supremacy is inevitably on its way out, and are desperate to hold onto it however they can

[L. Coyote]

19. Watch them emulate it, and beware the ones who do.

Link to tweet

[monkeyman1]

14. x kgb slob might be on the way out !! sounds close to me !

I know Russian people don't want to go back to Stalin day's ! Putin's time is up !he is of no use to Russia now ! the old kgb day's are gone !

[RKP5637]

24. I sure hope he is over-powered, somehow. He's the old worn out stock wanting battles and

slavery of his own people to a totalitarian state. The world is, hopefully, moving beyond that crap.

[SunSeeker]

16. The best way to purify Russia is to sprinkle Putin with some Novichok. nt

[rpannier]

17. Cultural Revolution anyone?

[Cha]

20. Purge yourself, MF. You first.

Glory to Ukraine~ 💙💛

[RKP5637]

25. K&R !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! n/t

[Buckeyeblue]

22. I wonder if Putin doesn't feel the support from these individuals?

But I don't understand the distinction he's trying to make between Russia and "the west." Russia is more European than anything else. Obviously, the long ruling communist party kept them isolated for years.

Putin, at this point, is a cornered rat. He's just lashing out. We need an exterminator.

[RKP5637]

26. Oops, he didn't know the window was mistakenly left open when he leaned back. n/t

[Samrob]

23. I am no fan at all of Putin, however, oligarchs around the world should take note. Greedy, corrupt,

bigoted, racist, men and women around the world should take heed. Not just oligarchs of Russia but all those who take and steal more and more and hide their wealth rather than doing something positive for humanity but who work within and with governments to hide move and use their wealth against working men and women and indigenous peoples around the world should be getting nervous. The warmongers and who own the wealth of their nations and use that wealth and power to grab more and more need to understand that there will be fewer and fewer places to run to and hide as ordinary people around the globe are getting sick and tired of the power forces that keep most of them in poverty and fear as they continue to divide them from each other to retain power and wealth.

It's happening in Canada and America as more and more grifting wannabe-oligarchs like those among the GQP here continue to do the blind bidding of their corporate heroes like the Koch Bros etc. The MTGs and Tuckers of the world need to be crushed to the ground in our own country. It may take time but it will happen as more and more hard-working REAL patriots and human beings get it together.

[RKP5637]

27. K&R !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! n/t

[eShirl]

28. For the rest of his life: every bite of food, every sip of drink, he has to wonder

"Did somebody get to it?"

[msfiddlestix]

29. hmm. sounding more and more like Stalin everyday....

a wanna be.

[RKP5637]

30. From what I've read, Putin sees Stalin as a hero, and yes, a wannabee. n/t

[msfiddlestix]

31. ✔️