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Prigozhin finally completed the prophecy of being the modern day Trotsky. First as tragedy, then as farce.
Just like Trotsky, Prigozhin will gain a short lived cult-like status for his brilliant military achievements, who has an unusual talent of whipping aimless youths and prisoners into fanatical shock troops, but an ultimately difficult personality who will pose a lot of trouble to the State. Useful during war time, but dangerous in peace time.
Trotsky - after the failed coup of November 7, 1927 was expelled to Kazakhstan, and ultimately killed in Coyoacán, Mexico City on August 21, 1940.
Prigozhin - after the failed coup of June 23, 2023 was expelled to Belarus, and ultimately killed in Kuzhenkino, Tver oblast on August 23, 2023.
Let’s not forget that this is not the first time the Russian (Soviet) state has disposed of someone dangerous after they have served their purpose. Nor will it be the last.
Sometimes there are 8 weeks where 1.3 decades happen.
They both had it comin'
There’s absolutely no way this guy gets taught about in history classes 100 years from now. Maybe it’s the liberal idea of an end of history talking but Trotsky was a much more influential figure than pigfuck. The special operation in ukraine, entirely insignificant in the grand scheme of things, it wasn’t even the largest war in Russia during the 21st century, that would be the Chechen war.
Like as Americans we are constantly exposed to information about this war but there’s other conflicts in the world that are arguably more important. The only reason the news pays attention to it is because it’s white people. Honestly if I ever saw a Ukrainian refugee I would show them combat footage clips of dead Ukrainian soldiers and say “is this your brother?” The Ukrainian identity doesn’t exist, it was created as a reaction towards the collapse of the ussr and their language is a dialect of Russian. Like I don’t support Putin either, he’s not a communist, but like fuck I hate Ukraine a lot more than I hate Russia. Russia I basically mildly dislike for abandoning communism, ukraine is literally ran by nazis.
This is why I emphasized that Trotsky was a tragedy, while Prigozhin is a farce.
Both Stalin and Trotsky were genuine revolutionary ideologues, while Putin and Prigozhin believed in nothing.
However, the parallel in their historical images is too good to be ignored. I didn’t come up with this btw, some Russian communists already called this since last year, and it’s amazing how close the prediction came true - from their cult-like status from the military campaign, the ongoing feud with the state, to the coup, the exile, and finally their assassinations by the state.
Too early to call, my friend. Too early. So far this conflict has radically reconfigured the global geopolitical landscape, from the rise of BRICS and the fall of EU, to the accelerated effort of dedollarization and demilitarization of NATO.
It could very well end up as the most significant event of the 21st century that sparks the end of Western imperialism.
Nonetheless, the empire still stands strong, and will use every means at its disposal to strike back.