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You have to go back 1881 to tsar Alexander II to find an assassinated Russian leader.
by lIl-IIIl 3y ago
You have to go back 1881 to tsar Alexander II to find an assassinated Russian leader.
- graphe 3y agoIf you ignore Putin's political assassinations, the assassinations during eras such as the red terror https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Terror https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Terror where Lenin and trosky were killed, and Nikolas II's 1918 assassination as well as the whole royal Russian family, sure. Russia has a rich culture of assassination.
- lIl-IIIl 3y agoNone of those examples are of a Russian leader being assassinated. Putin didn't kill any Russian leader, he is one. Nicholas II has abdicated the throne so he wasn't in power when he was killed. Lenin was shot but survived. Trotsky was never in power. All your examples flow from top to bottom, that is the leader of the country likely ordered them. But your "zero worries" argument rests on bottom up assassination, and Aleksander II is the most recent one.