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In Moscow's Shadows 90: A Murder in Donbas Evokes the 90s and Putin Cosplays the 40s
In Moscow's Shadows
Pragogen and the Russians
Mangushev and his unit were getting a lot more media coverage in recent months. This may suggest that he was being groomed as a future hero of the war precisely for PR benefit. Then there's also the suggestion that this may have been a proxy attack on Pragogen. It could be that he was a pawn being carefully groomed, if I continue the chess metaphor, to be promoted into a rook, a bishop or maybe even a queen - therefore he had to be taken off the board.
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