Kremlin acknowledges criticism after blogger warns Putin 'squeezed' Russians could erupt

It really does follow that formula. > In her video appeal, Bonya - who ​lives outside Russia - said she supported Putin, but said that officials were not telling him the ⁠truth about the country's real problems, that the Russian people were suffering, and that they were being squeezed so hard ​by corrupt officials that they might one day erupt. > "You know what the risk is?" she said. "That people will stop being afraid ​and they're being squeezed into a coiled spring and that one day that coiled spring will shoot out." KREMLIN SAYS WORK IS BEING DONE > Among other things, she spoke out against a sweeping crackdown on the internet, social media and messenger apps, accused the authorities of being too slow to respond ​to floods in Dagestan, and said they had mishandled the outbreak this year of a cattle disease in Siberia that led ​to an unpopular culling.

There’s also [“If the Führer knew”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_the_F%C3%BChrer_knew).

Fish always rots from the head. <- Needs to be taught globally especially in Russia.

Huh they did the same to King Charles 1st during the English civil war. The parliamentarian rebels blamed the King's scheming advisors almost right up til they cut the King's head off. Hopefully this has a similar ending.

I don't know if they learn it or if that's just how that kind of person thinks? Conservatives don't tend to take personal responsibility for anything... (despite expecting it of everyone they don't like)

It’s never been just a russian thing, too—it’s always been ‘the king’s corrupt advisors’.

Although there absolutely are quite a number of Russians who think “tsar doesn’t know“, it is quite naive to think everyone thinks that. It is just a way to switch the blame from literal tzar of the place. If you blame putin himself and all his government by extension = you are the enemy of the state. If you say “putin is chad and i love him, BUT there is clearly some bad shit going on, must be some stupid ministry to blame” is much safer way to say a valid critique and not to be punished instantly. Yeah, it’s quite a tradition in Russia, but I guess it is because of a long history of oppressive leadership.

It’s a fenestrative one.

They just know a window of opportunity when they see one.

They are acknowledging it, but still ignoring it. It’s the Russian way. They’ll handle it “2 weeks.”

Interesting if true! But really that's wild that it took this long to admit people are upset... though sitting here in the US, it feels like looking into the future

> In her video appeal, Bonya - who ​lives outside Russia - said she supported Putin, but said that officials were not telling him the ⁠truth about the country's real problems, that the Russian people were suffering, and that they were being squeezed so hard ​by corrupt officials that they might one day erupt. > "You know what the risk is?" she said. "That people will stop being afraid ​and they're being squeezed into a coiled spring and that one day that coiled spring will shoot out." Damn, I've seen someone else use the "Putin is doing a great job, it's his corrupt officials that are f****** things up" as an effective way to criticize things happening in Russia without being killed. Interesting pattern. > The idea of Putin as "a good Tsar" misinformed by nefarious officials is ​not a new ⁠one, and Kremlin critics suggested that Bonya's appeal may have been coordinated with the authorities to let people feel that their problems are being aired and dealt with ahead of parliamentary elections later this year. Ah.

More like; "has grown too much to further push the populace, as they may be pushed over the brink and are likely to revolt or engage in active public discontent". But yeah, you were right on the money.

“We acknowledge it” 🪟 🔫

This is just another western wet dream about Russia😅

Kremlin acknowledges criticism after blogger warns Putin [THAT] 'squeezed' Russians could erupt

Lol. It's proPutin propaganda. There is no criticism of the war. They're not allowed to call it "war", and wouldn't be wise to criticize. It's criticism of regional officials for various things making life more difficult for Russians -- to give him patsies and scapegoats to defenestrate lest Russians blame him for anything.

Trump bought 10 of them and wants to give.

Seriously? 18 years on listnook and you're showing surprise that people don't actually look at the article being discussed!

Freedom of speech says hello to you too

No, she says she "supports Putin"

She literally supports Putin.

We’re not fine, there’s no way to fight this. The police is militarized

Well USA didn’t overthrow their pedo yet and they are a free country. Doubt Russians will do anything unless hunger hits. But if you look at Iran, then it will likely require a genocide sized death through hunger before people start acting or anything similar to causes of French or Russian revolutions in the past.

I mean the average US citizen is dumb but the average Russian citizen is even dumber.

He has convictions, I guess?

That's what a Nazi would say and do.

I know, her daughter is in the US. But the criticism reached the Kremlin, so unless Putin actually IS playing 4D chess with planted operatives that openly criticize him from abroad I'd have to say she's at least sincere about this, if nothing else. Edited to add that the influencer (I hate even using that word) is describing internal criticism from abroad

That's not how it's worded. If it were worded like that it would have made sense though.

Russians really liked Prigozhin while he was fighting against the Ukrainians. But then he went crazy and became a traitor, for which he paid the price. I don't understand what this madman was hoping for. Apparently, he didn't believe that 80% of Russians supported Putin.