I skipped over "enemy" and got really excited for a second
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Friends say he passed away at home after eating mushrooms he found in the yard of his home.
Though he was a mushroom expert, the mushrooms he collected turned out to be poisonous.
When I become a political speaker I’m going to make my hobbies piano moving, snake catching, deep sea fishing, and free climbing.
....the mushrooms he saw in the yard of his home, right before diving from the fifth floor window in his excitement to pick them up and being almost saved by a passer-by, helpfully trying to slow his fall by shooting a few bullets up at him
A Russian coworker once lamented that he couldn't collect mushrooms in our area since he was not familiar with them like back home. Guess it's not an unusual thing to do in Russia.
So many "coincidences" over the years. These "accidents" always happen to his dear oppositors. Nobody knows why.
I wonder how many Putin allies have died similarly, and if there's any reporting bias about it.
Not doubting the "coincidences," but it would be interesting to validate statistically.
This is more of a cultural thing where you know you will get killed if you go against the leader, you know it's "bad" to even talk bad about them, and it's just accepted and you don't really criticize it... Because criticizing your government would mean getting in serious trouble. You learn this young. You accept it. You just don't do it.
That's how it was in the USSR, how it persisted under Putin, and they just believe that to be a symptom of a "strong" government. Apparently youth might be waking up a bit more in recent years, but it was like that for a long fucking time and they accept that just opening a piece of white paper in front of a building like a protester means getting carried away.
So yeah they know these people are getting killed by their government. It's just accepted. There is no question that it isn't an accident.
It's like that one video where someone goes up to a random Russian guy and asks him if he supports the war or Putin or something, and he gets quiet then says, "why talk about such things when we're surrounded by a beautiful city?" Then walks away.
lets recap: falling out of windows right after series of losses, asking for covid assistance, falling out or exploding planes, poisonous underwear, falling off of boats, bombs.
Don't forget the other poisonings, and shooting. From radioactive polonium, to nerve toxins, to we would even count pumping that concert hall full of fentanyl gas when it was taken by chechens and killing a good share if not most of the hostages, considered a great success in Russia I'm sure.
There was another with some kind of tree frog in a sweat lodge too just a few years back.
At first I read "Putin died" and I cannot even begin to describe the emotions going through me while I checked the sub name, before realizing I missed a word.
Same here. Dammit.
An interesting thought for sure, a thought about preparing for winter with, eh, expected uncertainty and fuel crisis started to form in my head. Like framing the balconies and additionally insulating old balcony doors and such stuff. Not even speaking about a reserve of matches, salt, sugar, canned meat and such.
Friends say he passed away at home after eating mushrooms he found in the yard of his home.
Though he was a mushroom expert, the mushrooms he collected turned out to be poisonous.
This is such a "wink, wink " to readers if I ever see one
He had some mushrooms and instantly shot himself in the back a couple of times before he threw himself out of the window. Totally normal, nothing to see here.
He's not the first Putin enemy to die from accidental mushroom poisoning. Look up the scientist Vitaly Melnikov.
There is an interesting podcast called Sad Oligarchs that document alot of these sort of deaths in Russia.
When talking about the alot of accidental poisonings, accidental drops from very high buildings, and suicides by two bullets to the back of the head, I always imagine an alot with the face of Putin.
Reference, with image of standard alot: https://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html?m=1
I'm conflicted.
As an "enemy" of Putin, I have to assume assignation, but no windows? Russia has lots its way, are the classics no longer respected.
While falling out of a window.
We had a case of death cap mushrooms in a Beef Wellington in Australia. The cook was convicted of killing her ex in-laws. Sounds familiar.
Ex in laws? That's a hell of a grudge to hold
It was followed pretty closely in the news in NZ too.
If anyone wants more reading material: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leongatha_mushroom_murders
they were spread in the USA to, from oaks imported from europe that had the spores on them.
What about destroying angels? Are they native to europe as well?
His enemies have started to avoid Windows and BUM, a new method. Putin is an inventive killer. Unlike Netanyahu who just kills en masse.
Russia has a long, long history with poisoning, going back to at least Stalin's time.
Which one is BUM?
What? So, the 6th floor, toss out the window, is abandoned.
Everyone knows you should only eat the mushrooms you know and not just anything you find in the Forrest.
α-Amanitin. Amanita looks edible. Common way to die. Also a very easy cover-up if they enjoy foraging for food. A lot of species are foragable, but a lot are also deadly and hard to differentiate. Definitely sus, but I wouldn't be surprised if this guy ate something similar to a death cap.
likely using DEATH cap, anamita phalloides, which very toxic to the liver and grows all over EURASIA. lemme guess hes next choice of poison is aconitum, WOLFSBANE. the plant is so toxic you can get poisoned just by touching it.
I guess hunting for mushrooms in Russia is a thing. Not that I wouldn't put this past Putin, but it's entirely possible this was just a thing that happened.
Intern: But comrade doctor, the man was obviously shot!
Comrade Doctor: Not so comrade, the mushrooms simply happened to be 9mm lead and thus he can reasonably have been said to have died of lead mushroom poisoning.
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