Comment on Marc Bennetts’ article ‘Putin’s chef’ to sue woman who accused him of attempted murder in The Times, April 12, 2020.
This does not sound true. The story is a product intended for western consumption, not an authentic representation of reality.
You need to understand that neither the earlier Communist Russia, nor today’s Communist Russia operate on principles indicated in the article.
Lawsuits? Conflicting stories in media outlets? Courts and media outlets belong to one and the same class, the Communist class. Those, who appear in them have already been pre-approved as participants of the narrative. Open conflicts? Only to deceive outsiders. Corruption is a fake story for western consumption. Some corruption? Ok, but not as the dominant problem. No one appears in the media, unless it is approved by the Guardians of the Narrative.
I am very well familiar with similar fake stories from Poland. On the surface they might ring true. Only on the surface. When you start checking their internal consistency, it quickly turns out that a lot of things simply do not make sense.
This article, like many, many others, reminds me of the Roy Lichtenstein’s picture, in which a man looking through a peephole into a dark room, declares “I can see the whole room/ …and there is nobody in it!”
@LechSBorkowski