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[–] joaomarrom@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago (2 children)

setting up a hot dog cart right next to the prigozhin monument

[–] Comp4@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago

Entering the prigozhin glizzy contest 2024

[–] Droplet@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

My favorite comment of all time on Russian telegram (written by a communist):

Yevgeny Prigozhin is the Leon Trotsky of modern Russian history. With many amendments, but in general - the same historical image. Bright, daring, with a well-spoken tongue and the ability to assemble vagabonds through life into shock troops. Just like Lev Davidovich in 1918-1920, Prigozhin forged an image for himself as the creator of the Red Army. Just like Trotsky, he does not put any of the current political figures in a penny (except for the leader, but this is not certain either). Prigozhin, just like Trotsky, will reap short-lived but loud fame and cult status in the country. Just like it did with Trotsky, the System will get rid of Prigozhin when his work is done. Simply because in moments of crisis destructive figures are necessary, but in other years they are dangerous. We have already seen and known all this!

This was written in January 2023 which essentially predicted Prigozhin’s eventual mutiny, exile and ultimately, the icepick moment.

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

lathe-of-heaven putin, be like your namesake, press the communism button

[–] Droplet@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Trostky was at least competent and instrumental in winning the revolution. Prigozhin is nothing but a squealing pig in comparison.

[–] Droplet@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I wouldn’t call Prigozhin useless. If you check out the communist pages on Russian telegram, he has achieved quite a cult status over there - someone who was wronged by the System for daring to criticize the inept leadership. Just like Trotsky and his Left Opposition supporters! He must be doing something right.

FYI there were a lot of communists who volunteered for Wagner during the Bakhmut phase, because it was the only chance you get to kill Nazis, while the rest of the Russian military were just chilling at the back. I know this because I used to see obituaries from communist pages about young guys who turned out to be the deputy or member of the local communist party branch of some random Russian towns I’ve never even heard of.

Now, empty of ideology, that’s for sure. Unlike Stalin and Trotsky, Putin and Prigozhin are both devoid of any ideological conviction.

[–] Parsani@hexbear.net 38 points 1 year ago

His grave stone reads:

He died doing what he loved: Cocaine and playing with grenades

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago

He's doing war crimes in heaven now, RIP big fella

[–] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"waltuh. get me outta this carbonite, waltuh"
mystery-emote speech-l
waltuh

[–] UltraGreen@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

"Me and the hutts had a good thing goin' waltuh"

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He died like he lived, wearing a track suit

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

I can't quite place the pose. It's like he's a bit nervous that it's his turn at karoke or something.

[–] Babs@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You can kill a man, but you can't kill an idea.

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

Well you do have to kill the man to actualize the idea, in this case

[–] LaBellaLotta@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What a hilarious fit to be cast In bronze we truly live in the stupidest timeline

[–] EmoThugInMyPhase@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

After the revolution that statue needs to be melted down and turned into truck nuts

[–] ProletarianDictator@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] EmoThugInMyPhase@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

He did. He brought his veteran friend with PTSD to a gun range, and the friend shot Chris Kyle because he got triggered by the gunfire lmao

Kyle had begun working with veterans after leaving the military. Routh's [the killer] mother, who worked at the school that Kyle's children attended, had heard of his work and asked him to help her son. He agreed to take Routh to a shooting range, which Kyle believed had therapeutic value.[6] Routh was a 25-year-old U.S. Marine Corps veteran from Lancaster, Texas. Kyle and Littlefield had reportedly taken Routh to the gun range in an effort to help him with his post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which he suffered from his time in the military.[7][8] Routh had also been in and out of mental hospitals for at least two years and had been diagnosed with schizophrenia, although his stated motive did not involve any symptoms typically associated with the disability, such as hallucinations or delusions.[5]

On the way to the shooting range, Kyle texted Littlefield, "This dude is straight up nuts." Littlefield responded, "Watch my six," military slang meaning "watch my back."[9] Four months later, while he was in his jail cell, Routh shared with former Erath County Sheriff's Deputy Gene Cole: "I was just riding in the back seat of the truck, and nobody would talk to me. They were just taking me to the range, so I shot them. I feel bad about it, but they wouldn't talk to me. I'm sure they've forgiven me."

He killed each of them with different weapons lol. Switching weapons is faster than reloading think-about-it freedom-and-democracy

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

Funniest death for a hubristic gunfucking chud.

[–] Tiocfaidhcaisarla@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

I hope there's a box of his costumes nearby to dress him up

[–] EmoThugInMyPhase@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

Someone get Stable Diffusion to make a picture of Prigozhin and Tupac on the beach

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Full-"length"? Are they admitting it's a statue of a snake? I bet it's measured in parrots, too.

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

Parrot units are used for water displacement calculations, actually. Very difficult but precise if you do it right.

[–] Big_Bob@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

I had no idea Glossu Rabban Harkonnen was that popular in Russia.

[–] ColonelKataffy@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago
[–] Packet@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

Truly a revolutionary of our time….. /s

[–] CredibleBattery@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

Felonious Gru-maxxing