Putin, Lenin and Prigozhin

 In 1905, the Russian fleet’s disastrous performance in a war with Japan helped inspire a failed revolution. In 1917, angry soldiers came home from World War I and launched another, more famous revolution.

Putin alluded to that moment in his brief television appearance this morning. At that moment, he said, “arguments behind the army’s back turned out to be the greatest catastrophe, [leading to] destruction of the army and the state, loss of huge territories, resulting in a tragedy and a civil war.” 

 Anne Applebaum The Atlantic JUNE 24, 2023

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2023/06/russia-civil-war-wagner-putin-coup/674517/

Here is the text of the Russian president’s emergency address as Wagner chief leads armed rebellion

“It’s a strike in the back of our country and our people. Exactly this strike was dealt in 1917 when the country was in world war one, but its victory was stolen. Intrigues, and arguments behind the army’s back turned out to be the greatest catastrophe, destruction of the army and the state, loss of huge territories, resulting in a tragedy and a civil war. Russians were killing Russians, brothers killing brothers. But the beneficiaries were various political chevaliers of fortune and foreign powers who divided the country, and tore it into parts.

Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis 24 juni

Putin has outdone himself: He dared compare Prigozhin to Lenin, making the absurd comparison of Wagner's mutiny to the Bolsheviks' principled stance against the inhuman WW1. A reminder to leftists who erred into tolerating Putin: He always hated the Left!