Russia’s Disappearing Generals: What’s Going On?

[@ivansmirnoff6987]

That Ukrainian official liking the Russian officer's route right after he got assassinated is one of the most amazing moves ever.

[@Frisia-]

cult like

[@TSmith-yy3cc]

It really was.

[@bruderschweigen6889]

​@@Frisia-what?

[@Frisia-]

@@bruderschweigen6889the comment is glorifying death against people not even in combat

[@bjornborg4849]

Oh so you support terrorist attacks? Would you also support such an attack on e.g. George w bush?

[@bronsonstrange3827]

Quick update: Prigozhin was just "confirmed" to be in an aircraft that crashed leaving no survivors between the 3 pilots and 7 passengers. With the clarity and integrity of Russian state media, there's no telling if he was already dead or not.

[@chandlerwhite8302]

But the real question is, did he fall out of the window before the plane crashed???

[@DangerB0ne]

​@@chandlerwhite8302Maybe he's wondering why you would shoot a man before throwing him out of a plane.

[@stormstalker2413]

​@@chandlerwhite8302Clearly the plane accidentally fell out a window. Presumably after shooting itself twice in the back of the head.

[@nihel3144]

@@stormstalker2413 The plane was actually secretly exiled to Belarus after peaceful negotiations with Lukashenko who approached it on a fighter jet

[@gunslingerspartan]

​@@DangerB0neif I take that off will you die?

[@jay-t1030]

When conducting a coup you either fully commit or don’t get involved at all.

[@RhysCampbell01]

It wasn’t a coup though was it

[@jboy804]

@@RhysCampbell01 It was an attempted coup that didn't have enough support, so it was called off essentially. We live in a very strange reality but this is most likely case. Putin is so weak, he really can't publicly destroy Prigozhin, and it's hilarious.

[@RhysCampbell01]

@@jboy804 for it to be a “coup” the aim needs to be explicitly to depose the current leader, which there’s no real evidence of

[@heybeter9505]

@@jboy804still insane that all prigozhin got was a time out in the naughty boy corner in belarus

[@nomansland4811]

No half measures.

[@zegermanscientist2667]

In a country where 'Your husband was arrested and may not receive letters' means he has been shot, 'General Surovikin is under house arrest' probably means he was buried in his own garden.

[@realliferevue]

Had to actually giggle

[@Im-just-Stardust]

Legend says that every time Simon open a new youtube channel, a Russian general goes missing.

[@ssreeser95]

What do you think feeds Danny and Sam in the basement?

[@daduzadude1547]

😂

[@ilajoie3]

​@@ssreeser95Fray Bento's steak and kidney pies

[@Hyde_Hill]

He could be winning the war on his own lol.

[@reekpeekseek]

I think it has more to do with openings of windows instead of KZbin channels.

[@Taxidermista_de_Phobos]

Well, time to update this video, it's too old already. Spoiler alert: Yevgeny Prigozhin is no longer with us, he crashed his jet into a missile in a very reckless maneuver. Rest in pieces.

[@zenmastermtl]

🤣🤣🤣

[@faiyoake]

Being a Russian general doesn’t historically lend itself to a long life span

[@GYI5U]

Georgy Zhukov stay winning

[@johnxscar]

still longer than a mobik

[@mikek9297]

They're like imperial admirals under Vader...

[@ooo_Kim_Chi_ooo]

​@@GYI5Uzhukov got screwed in the end though.

[@galatheumbreon6862]

Aleksei Brusilov

[@edonis2787]

Liking his run hours after his death is bloody hilarious. I can’t get over the genius combination of humour and an assassination.

[@malcolmabram2957]

Putin, "Ivan I will make you general." Ivan, "No, no please do not. Putin, "If you do not I will have you shot." Ivan, "That suits me fine, thank you for your mercy."

[@spikey6694]

Actual footage taken from deep inside the Cremlin early this year

[@kazekamiha]

@@spikey6694 Read that as Gremlin. XD

[@al_the_crow]

putin is not in charge of the army tho?

[@spikey6694]

@@al_the_crow it’s called a joke, also it’s Putin, he would legit try to control *EVERY* bit of Russia if he could…

[@ashroskell]

This may seem off topic a bit, but bare with me please? I have become suspicious of the way this presenter pronouncedly mispronounces words and have begun to wonder if there is a purpose behind it? People want to comment and correct the mispronunciation. And they do, as I have seen. Russians do not pronounce the letter, “J,” as in, “Jesus.” Especially at the beginning of words. Moreover, this guy have never heard anyone else pronounce Gerasimov’s name the way he does. The general’s name is pronounced with a, “G,” “Guh,” for, “Gary, Graham and fat shiny Git.” As in, “General Gerasimov.” He mispronounces specific nouns that everyone can spot, so badly and so often, that I have become convinced that it is a, “technique,” he uses to get people to comment and, thus, boost the algorithm’s response to the videos? I used to think it might be some form of passive-aggression, trolling his audience, but I couldn’t see the point in it? What do you think? Am I going a bit mad? It’s just too common. In just about every video he settles on the weirdest pronunciations of one particular bit of grammar that are like nails on a chalkboard to so many ears that people write in the comment sections about it. Do you think it’s to get comments?

[@georgine321]

I find it interesting that Ivan Popov’s message to his troops was revealed by Andrey Gurulyov, a retired Russian colonel general, Duma deputy, and regular talking head on all of the Russian State TV that is available. Gurulyov also regularly calls for nuclear bombs to be dropped on Ukraine and any/all of NATO. It’s like watching GoT but with very ugly people who do truly horrific things all of the time...but no dragons.

[@thedodorex7612]

But still fire like a dragon

[@darkhobo]

​@@thedodorex7612you mean hoard wealth like a dragon

[@timbirch4999]

​@@thedodorex7612Maybe if the dragon was old, senile, and was more likely to crash into home turf than anything else - if it ever took off at all.

[@thedodorex7612]

@@timbirch4999 I meant nuclear and missile fire

[@timbirch4999]

@@thedodorex7612 So did I. You think those missiles will still work after all this time?

[@santigimelli4208]

" he is resting"...there really was no more clear way of saying, "he has retired from this life"

[@thevoid5503]

Gone for a nap out in the woods. A dirt nap,

[@libertas5005]

You don't write "Rest in peace" on tombstones for naught

[@NexxtTimeDontMiss]

He was literally seen with his family today 😂

[@FOCKOFF-ruzzyan-emptyheads]

😂😂😂🐶

[@galatheumbreon6862]

@@NexxtTimeDontMiss proof?

[@danecker6108]

I was watching this as the news of Prigozhin broke

[@Coastfog]

Calling Dugina a journalist is like calling Simon's hairstyle "unkempt".

[@buddhapork]

So… Technically true then 😉

[@cmjdenver1]

Literally watched this video during work and then a hour later got a notification that Prigozhin died in a plane “accident”

[@poeticmic6219]

"Never let a good crisis go to waste"

[@der_peevmeister]

Russian history in five words: _”And then it got worse…”_

[@imgvillasrc1608]

*Slavic history

[@brainwasher9876]

They haven't disappeared, this is a special window-opening operation.

[@CodexQuinn]

They were fired. Not in the traditional sense of course, they were fired from a Cannon. Out of the Kremlins window.

[@mahmud6042]

Watching this video as the world learns of Prigojin’s plane getting shot out of the sky above Tver in Russia. Great video!

[@chains2660]

We all know that if someone disappear in Russia it means you’ll never see them again

[@sweetleaf9668]

Permanently resting .

[@captaindonkeyballs]

Tragically discovered several days later having shot themselves multiple times in the back

[@thodorisevangelakos]

Of all the things he could say, the statesman decided to say that "he's resting"? 😂

[@NexxtTimeDontMiss]

He’s literally alive and with his family today

[@chrisdrake447]

@@captaindonkeyballs... and all that after having self-defenistrated from a 5th window. Must be something in the vodka.

[@Thurston86]

Just when I think I’ve seen all of Simon’s channels, I find _another_ one! He has to be the most prolific man on KZbin.

[@Tigerman1138]

I always thought videos I saw this guy narrating were the same channel. He has multiple?

[@Novasux]

I think he may have sold biographies and geographical. Not positive tho

[@bunyipdragon9499]

​@@Novasuxhe doesn't own all the channels he narrates.

[@cherniqhs]

​@@bunyipdragon9499yep, he is just narrating the misinformation ( not meaning this video but other topics I found pure bs being portrait as facts and truth - historical topics around ww2 and space things )

[@davemccombs]

Shameless clickbaiter*

[@TrineDaely]

Surovikin was confirmed as being on house arrest "until he's forgotten," by Politico Europe yesterday. His subordinates can and do visit his apartment, as has his daughter. I'm sure his underlings are tapping him for ideas on how to handle the war, which would make sense as their most experienced general. He is to be basically out of sight and out of mind, but still has use to pootin with his experience. The butcher of Mariupol was sent to Wagner, another very experienced and brutal general, and I haven't heard anything about him since then. I hope Azov found him. Kadyrov hasn't been seen in a while, either. But some of his men are getting into shootouts with russian miitary or mobliks in Mariupol.

[@12jswilson]

Even still, without Wagner and Prigozhin and Surovikin, Russia's best generals, or at least the ones that have gotten the best results, doesn't bode well for Russia winning the war in Ukraine

[@TrineDaely]

@@12jswilson I'm sure they're still tapping Prigo and Armageddon for know-how and that's why they haven't had tea by a window yet. The less officers they have, the better!

[@jessgunn6639]

MORE LIKE GENERAL GONE-ON-DON!

[@mickvonbornemann3824]

@@jessgunn6639 They’re been recalled to prepare a rapid reaction force some 300 000 strong

[@laars0001]

@@mickvonbornemann3824...because they handled the previous 300k so expertly and efficiently 🥴

[@natez2038]

As I’m watching this, I just saw an update that Prigozhins aircraft was shot down in Tver Region, Russia and he was listed as one of the passengers. Apparently Wagner confirmed this August 23, 2023.

[@ghostrunner6815]

The irony that reports are saying the day this video released another commander was announced dead in mysterious circumstances.

[@joeyjoejoeshabadoo1411]

Wonderful timing, who would have guessed Prigozhin's story would finish so soon. Haha

[@themyth3686]

Like a random Ukraine news bro I saw said: "Putin only cares about loyalty. It doesn't matter if they don't yield results as long as they are loyal to him"

[@pgbrown12084]

Sounds like someone else, too.

[@chrisdrake447]

Putin doesn’t care about loyalty. He only cares about inducing sufficient fear in those around him to ensure the protection of his own arse and fortune. Classic gangster behaviour.

[@transcendentalidiot3321]

@@pgbrown12084 To me, it sounds like any dictator, or dictator wanna-be.

[@Historyandlegends789]

Just like Trump

[@Silver_Prussian]

So basicaly trust me bro

[@victoriarees4540]

Who's here after the plane crash?

[@stevewindsor3858]

"They have tragic accident, that hopefully others may learn from." - John Oliver on Putins many disappearing oppositions.

[@amietinen]

Apparently Prigozjin and Utkin did a poor job avoiding high altitudes, looks like the both fell to their death today, while inside an airplane.

[@genericscout5408]

The loss of Russian generals is nothing new, in the USSR the entire fleet of the Navy got decapiated due to oranges in their plane causing it to roll over and crash.

[@drbuckley1]

The most valuable asset in the Russian Navy is the tugboat.

[@irishpatriotv2575]

It was rolls of Printing paper

[@genericscout5408]

@@irishpatriotv2575 it was the admirals who overloaded the plane they packed it full of TV’s Fridges and anything else that they could fit on it. Not too different than the looting of washing machines on helicopters now really.

[@tomhenry897]

That was the legal cargo It was overloaded with the generals person items

[@MaddogMD82]

​@@drbuckley1ah my fellow Admiral Kuznetsov connoisseur

[@IH-li5ir]

I’m literally watching this on my lunch break, and birthday, and simultaneously just got a notification that Prigozhin and Utkin were just reported dead in a plane crash… 😮😂

[@DeanMarano]

This hits even harder after Prigozhin's plane crash.

[@adamgroszkiewicz814]

5:55 That shot of Prigo dressed up like Sascha Baron Cohen from The Dictator was worth this entire watch

[@Enubatan]

Putin has finally solved the Prigozhin question today.

[@varjen018]

Nice timing on the details and questions around Prigozhin here.

[@robertnelson3179]

Thank you for the in-depth review of this ongoing situation. As one raised in the Cold War time frame I sometimes giggle at the people that saw USSR collapse and that all had changed but failed to see Putin as the old school operator he is come to power and act surprised at this and other events.

[@bornonthebattlefront4883]

This Also the failure of Russia, it’s not able to pull together the resources of a dozen countries, Russia alone can only do so much

[@BronzDano]

Russia doesn’t have as many generals as Simon does channels 😅

[@seanosborn3272]

Your comments too long and rambley

[@Yourmumsrectum]

Well man look at all the fcking propaganda in the west at the start that made him out to be awesome. Ever think that maybe there a propaganda problem that caused that train of thought. You seem to forget about the western company raid into Russia in the 90s man and the propaganda around that.

[@tonycrabtree3416]

The most hilarious thing is those that don’t realize US doing US things to keep the military industrial complex fed! You 🤡🤡🤡🤡

[@PG-tas]

Time for a part 2

[@Bildgesmythe]

Oh yes!

[@artemis5210]

I guess today we can add a new name to that list today

[@sunil_de6856]

That part about Prigozhin still bing alive aged well...

[@fledthehunter5293]

He is alive... in hell.

[@MykePagan]

Looks like Prigizhin wasn’t beyond reprisal today :-)

[@elliel5472]

Prighozin did well to last two months post coup, surprised it took them that long!

[@greysessentials8937]

Another Simon video is just the way to start my day off. From here in anchorage Alaska keep up the amazing work!

[@scottmcfarlane7524]

he is done with BIO, GEO and Today I found out fyi

[@SoManyRandomRamblings]

Ditto

[@alexmendoza4261]

Is he done with all the pages he's on?

[@greysessentials8937]

@@alexmendoza4261hopefully the pages are endless😂

[@greysessentials8937]

@@scottmcfarlane7524I hope not any reason?

[@snowbearer]

This rings eerily true with tonight's headlines...

[@Matt-jc9kj]

Watching this after the "plane crash" makes it even more eerie.

[@joshuasuhaimi]

this aged well

[@Hsereal]

"This video is getting more views than usual!" -KZbin analytics, Aug. 23, 2023

[@WolfricThorsson]

"As far as we can tell, Prigozhin is still alive and working with Wagner" Well.... that didn't age very well 😂

[@RenegadeElite101]

Neither did prigozin

[@eggtarts286]

Checking in 6 days after you post this video: Add one more to the count. Prigozhin downed.

[@alanbrown342]

Shocked, I am shocked. Actually, I immediately rushed to the comment section of this video - which I watched last week - under the illusion that I could write a snarky "breaking news" comment. It appears dozens of people already have.

[@alanbrown342]

Although the latest news is that 10 people were on passenger list, 8 bodies were found. It's possible that Prigozhin isn't dead - maybe he even knew something was up. Not placing any bets, but wait and see ...

[@halporter9]

This is really quite well researched, very helpful. Complicated material, well structured and accessible yet with sense for delicate nuance. All using material apparently in the public domain however obscure. I am impressed; but more important, this adds a dimension to public understanding. Thank you.

[@kronosomni2805]

It's a shame, he was the co-founder of 3 other channels, Biographics, TopTenz, and Geographics, and today we found out from the one who owns them, Shannon, that Simon left and is being replaced, and all of those were similar to this channel. They were well written, researched, and Simon does a really good job of fluctuating his voice to make you understand the seriousness of what he is saying.

[@kronosomni2805]

I should clarify, he left because of Shannon, she freely admits she wasn't a good boss in the video.

[@Silver_Prussian]

Western sources are used as the sole truth with disregard for addition sources, to say its a bias representation of events is generous

[@Im-just-Stardust]

@@kronosomni2805 I think this is how Simon earn his life. He create a channel, bring it to 1 million subs then sell it. A lot of people are willing to pay for a running channel. Selling channels alone is not enough to make a living so this is where sponsors comes in.

[@kronosomni2805]

@@Im-just-Stardust Not even remotely close to what he is doing, big difference between "I left because my boss was a tw*t" and "I left because I sold it"

[@ThatOneGuy-q5i]

This needs updating

[@KW-qd1bi]

Just today (8-17-23) the death of general zhidko was announced . He lead the Ukraine invasion force for a brief period before his lack of success became too much to bear

[@frostypenguinz189]

Here directly after the news release of Prighozin plane "crash".

[@davey7452]

The missing generals must have been walking too near an above floor window.

[@jrmckim]

While carelessly smoking

[@resileaf9501]

@@jrmckim And drinking tea

[@dolphin8397]

I like to imagine Putin watching the closing points of this video, frantically taking notes😂

[@RegenXF1]

He does not

[@kangaroocaliphate1577]

Even when Stalin purged 2/3 of the generals and officers of the Red Army they were lucky to have generals like Zhukov and talented tank engineers. The talent pool seems shallow even when compared to Stalins purged Red Army

[@AuntieTrichome]

Putin is doing a Mussolini here. Worst purge imaginable.

[@merkvandermeulen3978]

And still lots of Russians consider themselves blessed to have a brilliant strategist like Putin at the helm. Difference is, this isn't 1914, nor 1944, nor 1984.

[@donaldcarey114]

Truth be told you could purge 2/3 of the officers in the U.S. military and the country would end up with a much more effective Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine corps. (The same goes for the Coast Guard.)

[@VajrahahaShunyata]

The purge tends to remove the most qualified... Leaving the loyal idiots...

[@frankchan4272]

@@merkvandermeulen3978a poorly educated & limited access to factual information will make you believe anything. Also, if they use laws if don’t believe in current regime with threats of prison (modern day GULAG) or worse so you so will say what they want to say.

[@willhendrix86]

Simon has to be the only KZbinr that I know of that time and again starts and successfully runs 1M+ Subscriber channels over and over without fail. Hats off to your sir.

[@NahThisIsPatrick]

and thats why 90% of people dont subscribe

[@bikkiikun]

Nice work... Thoug, I think you should have gone a little deeper on Shoigu. He is not just Defence Minister, he is an Oligarch... probably one of the richest and apart from Putin the most powerful one (maybe even more so...). And he has been around even before Putin. He is, in that regard a figure like Khodorkovsky. But unlike the former boss of Yukos, Shoigu knew how work the levers of power while staying out of the spot light and keeping the image of a loyal bureaucrat. Another aspect of Shoigu's that is important to this story, is the fact that his personal riches are THE Root Cause of the sorry state of the Russian armed forces. It's not like the Russian Government didn't put money into its military... Its just that a lot of this money "disappeared" along the way. And while Putin made many stupid decisions in the last two years... this issue should hav been known to him way before that. And this begs the question, why hasn't Putin removed Shoigu?? I mean, now of course this would look like givin in to Wagner's demands. But Putin had ample cause to remove Shoigu way before Prigozhin made such a stink. So, there is an interesting question: Is Putin just a puppet (of Shoigu's)?

[@charlieboy13]

This aged well for Prigozhin

[@MLaak86]

Surely they're not actually going missing - they're just being careless around windows.

[@robertlortz4297]

We need a follow up video!!!

[@kromtastic]

Watching this now after Prigozhin "died" in the plane "accident"

[@walesruels]

This aged well. In 6 days 😂

[@evilfingers4302]

Russian Generals disappearing, reminds me of how many German Generals disappeared and were captured throughout WW2.

[@badofcheese]

Hits different today…

[@ayishatabdul6949]

And here we are, nearly a week after this was posted.. Prigizhin's private jet "falls" out of the sky.. I personally thought he would unfortunately "fall" out of a window somewhere.. Falling 24 thousand feet out the sky was close though 😕

[@cmanmaxwell]

John wick strikes again

[@xanmontes8715]

Such a tragedy how his airplane fell out a window xD

[@chickenfate5235]

18:55 ooo… About that…

[@razorburn645]

I'm assuming they just have the Austin Powers chairs that drop into an incinerator that Putin uses when he's upset.

[@briangallagher8881]

Can't wait to see the latest Warographics video on Prigozhin and the rest of the Wagner Group.

[@noahlogue]

These analysis videos are always so good.

[@babychuma1]

The big problem with being a dictator is that there's no retirement plan.

[@jacksonharrison6624]

What fortuitous timing

[@leandrosalexsandrovich179]

Damn not even a week after this came out it’s believed Prigozhin is believed to have died in a plane crash

[@Phoenix-in-flight]

Ah, Russia! What a difference a week makes. 😂 Pregoysin plummets.

[@nomad3182]

That loose end you mentioned seems to have resolved itself

[@anonymousrex5207]

Great timing on this video considering Prigozhin's plane crashed today under mysterious circumstances.

[@badofcheese]

Mysteriously blown out of the sky by a SAM.

[@lordortus]

Well...... This might need updating now....

[@FajitaJim]

Simon is the only host I have to babysit my volume. Up, down, up, down, up, down. Simon, Volume Normalization is a thing!

[@pryles2000]

I look forward to your follow up on this.

[@TheBarachus]

This aged remarkably well, although not surprisingly

[@radder86]

Well, this didn't age well in a week. Haha. Still a great video and love your work

[@vwooops9704]

Any channel this man posts I will watch. Who’s with me?

[@TStark-vj2wo]

Watching this hours after Prigozhin's plane went down...

[@ignitionfrn2223]

1:15 - Chapter 1 - Setting the table 4:35 - Chapter 2 - The oddities 17:00 - Chapter 3 - Observations & conclusions

[@Ladysnortles]

Guess this needs to be updated already.

[@Edgearoth]

"Jerry Seemov" LOL

[@chrisdrake447]

Oh Simon & co! A fascinating assessment, but whatever it is that’s going on within and between the Russian Federation political and military hierarchies, the one thing it isn’t is “unprecedented “. It’s different now, compared to Stalin’s almost routine bouts of paranoid blood-letting, but it most definitely is not “unprecedented”.

[@RzmmDX]

Guess Putin watched this video and was reminded that he forgot to disappear a general for the month.

[@haydennorthrup9111]

Good news, I figured out what happens to Prigozhin

[@kristianstevenson-edmunds1701]

on the topic of disguises. We've never seen Simon and Prigozhin in the same room have we?

[@Isaac-hl3nj]

Utkin is down too

[@davidwilliams9302]

Oh, what a difference 6 days makes

[@cntipede1000]

How the heck do you lose 50 Generals in combat?

[@CodexQuinn]

Blindfolds and a firing squad, predominantly

[@TmackSD184]

Practice

[@mj.ray0898]

Jokes aside, it has to do with Russia's military doctrine. Rather than relying on enlisted NCOs to manage individual units with orders coming from the top down, Russia prefers to have its officers oversee frontline operations personally, presumably to allow orders to be more dynamic. Downside to this is that they're basically cannon fodder in this role, and losing lower-ranking officers led to being replaced by higher ones, etc, until generals are being mowed down in combat ops.

[@matthewdopler8997]

Aged like wine.

[@unwarranteddesign806]

Interestingly enough, we're now seeing the effects of Popov's removal in Zaporizhzhia Oblast. The AFU has now bridged the Dnipro River in two places and are now within striking distance of the vital (for Russian logistics) Tokmak railway hub.

[@recoil53]

This is the one that interested me the most. VDV units have been chewed up in Bakhmut. But he actually thinks like most trained generals and thinks about the preservation of his forces. Unlike many Russian generals, his soldiers like him. The Southern front is the most important to the Russians, guarding access to Crimea. Yet they remove a seeming capable and popular commander during the summer offensive.

[@KarlEchtermeyer]

Moose’s Tooth is fantastic. It’s a local institution.

[@TheJtyork420]

He was allowed to live up until bout a hr ago.

[@MrBlazemaster525]

They're going on special window-testing operations lmao

[@Obombabinladin]

THEY KILLED HIM!!!

[@fgaviator]

"He' resting." "Resting? He is dead!" "No, no, he's resting." "He's stone dead! He is no more! He's expired and gone to see his maker." "No, no, just resting. He'll wake up. He's stunned..."

[@rkirke1]

Russia: Putin suspects disloyalty -> Shady Stalinesque skullduggery and 'disappearances' Ukraine: Corruption in military uncovered -> Zelenskyy fires them all and conducts conventional, transparent criminal trials. Replaces them with injured veterans from the front line, knowing they're already 100% loyal to Ukraine, and giving the disabled vets a renewed sense of purpose and an opportunity to keep serving their country.