and i think it really made it may have the potential to sort of take the lid off at a very controlled situation, where public criticism has been really disallowed incrementally made more difficult. critics have left russia, there have been laws that have been passed that made it more difficult to voice opposition to what putin calls a special military operation in ukraine. media has been consolidated under the control of the state, and what the people i m talking to say is that this actually could result in a more repressive russia. one of the few new tools that putin has is his repression of the public, and now that he has had this real public challenge, he couldn t need to resort to that more if people feel emboldened by what prigozhin has done to voice their dissent in a way that they haven t up to now. missy, prigozhin seemed like