what-putins-elite-think-about-him
**Original creator:** *War Translated - Ukraine War Archive*
https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1640036537436889088?cxt=HHwWgICzidSiysItAAAA
**Original description**:
Making rounds in the Russian and Ukrainian internet today is an alleged leaked recording of a phone call between a notable Russian music producer Iosif Prigozhin (not Wagner's Prigozhin) and Farkhad Akhmedov, an Azerbaijani businessman and a former politician in Russia.
In this 35-minute call, both men who appear to be friends discuss the current affairs in Russia and slam Putin and Russian leadership, amply using curse words.
This segment pieced together and translated by us contains the juiciest parts. In the rest of the call, men complain about sanctions, which affected both personally.
While Mr. Prigozhin denied that this call happened and claimed it was a deepfake made using neural networks, he later commented by saying "Let's start with the fact that there is such a thing as private life. People in a private conversation can talk about anything", but stated he "couldn't remember such a call happening.
The Russian audience does not appear as convinced, however - a poll ran by one prominent Russian separatist Oleg Tsaryov on Telegram showed 58% believed it was real, and only 13% thought it was a deep fake.
While the call is not informative by itself, if real, it could indicate the mood among some elites in Russia.
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The original call lasts for more than 30 minutes (subtitles in Russian):
https://youtube.com/watch?v=_4QDAX3h_bw
Some notes courtesy of _Russia Tomorrow_
https://t.me/RussiaTomorrow1/5225
> ? “He doesn’t give a fuck, people don’t give a fuck, he’s a fucking satan. Dummy. Notorious, undergrown midget, damn. They hate it, everyone hates it."
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> Ukrainian media published a conversation between two men whose voices are suspiciously similar to the voices of ex-senator and oligarch (now under sanctions) Farhad Akhmedov and producer Iosif Prigozhin (not to be confused with the owner of PMCs Wagner). For half an hour they discuss Putin and his entourage, who "pissed off the country." Everything about this dialogue is great.
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> ? Akhmedov: “He won’t go back, he can’t go forward. There will be fascism, there will be a military dictatorship, you'll see. Buried all the Russian people, damn it, and for a long time. When are we going to get rid of this?"
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> ? Prigogin: “To be honest, of course, they are criminals, damn it, what other criminals. They lost to Kvartal 95, damn it. And the fact that they say that those are fighting against them, behold - they themselves gave a reason. He was driven into this shit ... He drove himself into this! To be honest, I would fucking stop, get a Nobel Prize, and fucking leave.”
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> ? Akhmedov: “We have a periodic table, we will survive, damn it! And where? Tell me! And this is still the beginning. The iceberg is melting, damn it. How much does this war cost every day? How many fucking innocent people are suffering out there? So much blood spilled, damn it. Brother against brother, damn it. For what? Lived for themselves, damn it, perfectly. Undeveloped territories, damn it, we have lands all over Russia, 86 subjects, damn it. Take it and do the f*ck, create the conditions.
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> ? According to Prigozhin, Sechin, Chemezov and Zolotov united against Shoigu, “behind his back they call him a fucking bob” and “they want to demolish him” .
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> Prigozhin has already stated that there was no such conversation, and blamed everything on neural networks: “Everyone knows my political position. But you know, when I listened to the audio recording, I myself almost believed that it was me.
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