A CAR TO DIE FOR: Talk about some grim spin. Russian TV recently featured a couple who bought a new white Lada sedan using the money their government gave them as compensation for their soldier son being killed in Ukraine. The Putin regime could use a little advice on how to brand their next of kin payments – which they currently term “coffin money.” Russian TV showed the parents heading to the cemetery in their spiffy new Lada. Staff Sergeant Alexi Malov’s dad was quoted saying “In memory of our son we bought a nice new car.”
TEENAGE MUTANT NEO-NAZIS? According to The Daily Beast, a couple of Russian lawmakers have been conducting an “investigation” and have discovered why the Ukrainians are fighting so hard. They say that Ukraine has been experimenting on its own troops by giving them drugs “in order to completely neutralize the last traces of human consciousness and turn them into the most cruel and deadly monsters.” Oh, and of course, they claim this work was launched from American-connected biolabs in Ukraine.
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