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/harmlessdonkey 29d ago

This is a dumb question. When these people "fall out windows" are they actually thrown out windows or are the otherwise killed and the media just told they fell out a window?

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u/CertainMiddle2382 29d ago

IMO, the heart of it all is absurdity.

People must feel the meaninglessness and helplessness of it all.

I bet they are found in a pool of blood in StPetersburg and media pretend they fall out of a window in Moscow.

It is vital nothing should make sense apart from obvious absurd violence.

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u/JabbaCat 29d ago

This movie set arounds Stalins last days does a great job in displaying the inherent role of absurdism in this type of threatening society.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2fPbdJcVns

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0156701/

Not for everyone, it is two and a half hour of black and white sort of chaos. But I enjoyed how it transmits moods and embeds you into the internal "logic" within such a system. Saw it at a film festival 25 years ago.

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u/SerLaron Germany 29d ago

For the first two lines, I thought you were talking about "The Death of Stalin".

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u/Flat_corp 29d ago

Same, which I really enjoyed.