A British expert announces the fall of the Kremlin leader: Putin is losing control in Russia

A British expert, who has written books about Adolf Hitler’s dictatorship in Nazi Germany, has revealed the image of the Russian president as his country’s “great protector”, more so than Gorbachev. But at the same time, he announces the fall of Vladimir Putin, who is “losing control” in Russia.

Co-author of Surviving Hitler: Corruption and Compromise in the Third Reich and Seduced by Hitler, Roger Boyes was The Times’ Eastern Europe correspondent based in Warsaw, Poland, where he covered the Solidarity revolution and the imposition of martial law, according to Newsweek.

His book referred to the Cold War, suggesting that Putin’s political survival was based on being “more protective of the motherland” than the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, as well as a “steadier hand” than his predecessor, Boris Yeltsin.

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Despite the war that began in Ukraine with the February 24, 2022 invasion, “Russian cities were largely sheltered from evil. He was the Great Protector”. However, in Boyes’ view, he was “no longer” the protector.

That’s because Friday’s attack on Moscow’s Crocus City Hall concert hall “revealed at once the flimsiness of its claim to be Russia’s sword and shield, the unpreparedness of the security apparatus for a new threat and the low credibility of the regime’s war rhetoric “.

“The sequence of events shows how Putin is losing control of the narrative,” said Boyes, who noted the death of Putin’s most prominent opponent, Alexei Navalny, on Feb. 16 and his subsequent dismissal of U.S. intelligence suggesting an imminent attack by the state Islamic in crowded public spaces.

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“One thing is for sure – ordinary Russians who imagined ten days ago that they were voting for a trustworthy leader now feel scared about the future,” said Boyes.

Russia’s Federal Security Service, the FSB, said it had arrested 11 people, including four suspected gunmen identified as Tajik nationals, who appeared in a Moscow court on terrorism charges on Sunday with signs of a beating.

Russian officials have insisted that Ukraine and the West played a role, which Kiev and the US vehemently deny. But Boyes said Putin’s propagandists had “overreached” in trying to link Kiev to Islamic State and were now “talking vaguely about Western puppeteers”.

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“That’s when you know a narrative has failed,” said Boyes, who noted that one scenario could be that Putin could use the attack to distance himself from the war in Ukraine and freeze the conflict, focusing on a more general war against terror.

The crisis could also mean that “Putin is already losing control, that he has allowed internal squabbles within the bloated intelligence establishment to spiral out of control.”