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Did the CIA back Prighozhin or assassinate him?

The increasingly bizarre mental gymnastics of pro-Russian "anti-imperialists."

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Carl Beijer
Aug 29, 2023
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I haven’t had much to add to the news of death merchant Yevgeny Prigozhin’s assassination beyond laughing at the idea that the culprit was the CIA — or the Covid vaccine. (Prighozhin’s plane crashed, the joke goes, because his pilot had a heart attack after getting vaccinated — an obvious parody, but one so many people bit on that Forbes had to debunk it

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