It will be interesting (assuming he doesn’t just disappear without a trace) to follow the fate of Aleksandr Bortnikov, the director of the Russian secret service FSB, who is indicated by an alleged revelation of the Ukrainian SBU opponents as a candidate of a group of enemies outstanding conspirators for Vladimir Putin’s successor. Provided that the current number one in the Kremlin actually falls victim to the conspiracy hatched by oligarchs and generals that the Kiev secret service is talking about.
We know that Bortnikov, blamed for the assassination of former colleague Aleksandr Litvinenko, has fallen out of favor in Putin’s eyes for giving him false information about the war in Ukraine. But after losing credibility in the boss’s eyes, Bortnikov could now also leave us real or fake skin, regardless of the Ukrainian information concerning him: Putin is not looking for the subtle.
The probability of Vlad the Terrible dying in a bomb attack is pretty slim. Putin is obsessed with security, he’s convinced the Americans want to kill him like Gaddafi, he enjoys his meals and he goes out in public in a bulletproof vest. Only an unlikely conspiracy hatched among loyalists could succeed.
Interestingly, however, like Bortnikov, Putin was head of the secret police, a role often associated with early death in Soviet history. Yuri Andropov was the only director of the KGB who migrated to the top of the party state, it was November 1982, but already in February 1984 the new leader of the USSR had died, killed by a “cold” that had set in history: in reality yes treated of natural causes from cancer. Nor is malice evident in the case of Feliks Dzerzhinskij, the enraged founder of the Cheka (later Nkvd, then Gpu, then KGB), who died of a heart attack in a violent altercation in 1925 at the age of 49. However, the next sequence is chilling. We are in the terrible thirty years of Stalin’s power, a character that Putin has rehabilitated. Genrikh Yagoda, the ruthless head of the NKVD until 1936, was shot in 1938. His betrayal was “discovered by the man who then took his place: Nikolai Yezhov, nicknamed “the midget killer (he was a meter and 50 tall). , a bloodthirsty monster who continued the infamous Stalinist purges until he himself became a victim: Stalin had him shot in February 1940 and blamed him for the excesses.
Another mass murderer followed him: Lavrentij Beria. A sadistic torturer, he survived his boss’s paranoia and, in March 1953, boasted to other Politburo hierarchs that he poisoned Stalin’s death from a stroke. A few months later, after a conspiracy worthy of a gangster movie hatched by Khrushchev and Malenkov, Beria was arrested and hastily executed: his executioners lived in fear that he would do this to them.
Vladimir Putin was also the head of the KGB, he knows his methods and uses them extensively: the fate of Litvinenko, Boris Berezovsky, Anna Politkovskaya, Boris Nemtsov and many others is a long blood streak. Shouldn’t he be afraid for himself too?