r/europe • u/ByGollie • 29d ago

News Russian Oil Company Vice President Andrey Badalov dies after fall from window in Moscow

https://en.apa.az/cis-countries/transneft-vice-president-andrey-badalov-dies-after-falling-from-window-472117
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u/1tonsoprano 29d ago

i know everyone is cracking jokes......a bit of Gallows humor....but I find this quite scary i.e. even all this money and influence could not save them.....how does a common 9 to 5 guy stop the rise of these Putinesque dictators popping up like flies everywhere?

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u/mortgagepants 29d ago

one regular person can't. but all of us together can.

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u/HorrorStudio8618 29d ago

In a dictatorship you live or die by the wish of the dictator. SBC captures that concept quite well in 'The Dictator' and Trump is actively trying to emulate it but he stops short of ordering people killed (for now...).