I’ll note that the NYT changed the title from “Putin is Hunting Down Ordinary People” to “Putin Is Doing Something Almost Nobody Is Noticing”

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    2 months ago

    Apart from the pure evilness, think about the level of pettiness shown here.

    Putin invests probably millions and thousands of agents for what exactly? Revenge on a handful of people who silently left?

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      2 months ago

      It’s exactly how KGB worked. It’s not that everyone would be caught, or everyone was a KGB agent, it was about instilling fear so that everyone would behave out of fear of disappearing.