Putin's closest cronies caught calling him 'Satan' and 'a dwarf'

March 29, 2023 By Monica Showalter

Somebody new going to fall out of a window in Moscow? Seems the tsar of Russia is not well regarded by the boyars he holds in his closest circle, and now the entire world knows about it. That's what we read in the Daily Mail:

Moscow's high society has been rocked by a scandal after a pair of prominent Vladimir Putin cronies were allegedly heard insulting the Russian despot.

Oligarch and former Russian senator Farkhad Akhmedov and high-profile Moscow music producer Iosif Prigozhin, both supposedly supporters of Putin, have been accused of calling him 'Satan' and a 'dwarf'.

An audio recording of what is reportedly a 35-minute phone call between the wealthy pair was shared by Ukraine's Channel Five and quickly jumped on by other outlets — as well as Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB).

In the audio clip, the pair are heard eviscerating Putin's invasion of Ukraine, slamming his Kremlin entourage over their failings, and even insulting his height.

Any public criticism of Putin in Russia is rare — not least among those who have benefited most from his consolidation of power. Those found guilty of insulting the Russian state, its army, or Putin himself face fines and even jail time.

While it's funny as heck to those of us on the outside, given how splendidly mean these two are in their toilet-mouthed mockery — calling Putin's deputy, Dmitri Medvedev, "undergrown," for one, and howling that Putin is being defeated by Kvartal 95, which is Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky's entertainment production company — the leaked conversation tells us a lot about how the Ukraine war is going over in Russia, where losses are terrible, and daily reports of small-fry dissidents being arrested for protesting that war now seem to extend to a much higher circle. .............To Read More......

My Take - There were those who claimed this was just American propaganda, or arranged by the CIA.  Well, my response was you're kidding, right? It's recorded! Claiming it didn't happen, or this is a set up by the CIA, or mere propaganda is like criminals caught on tape committing serous crimes claiming they didn't do it. It was some relative who looks like them that did it.  

Whether the CIA recorded this or not is immaterial, and if this was recorded, and voice analysis affirms these were the people saying all this, it's not propaganda, it's fact. However, we now know they're as stupid a Putin for saying it over the phone. And if that's the quality of his inner circle, a seriously reduced inner circle, he's surrounded by idiots.  Oh, one more thing. They're going to "commit suicide" soon. Very soon. ................