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  Age doesn't make guns inaccurate.
context: When your border service is there more to block you from leaving your country than controling what is coming in, it shows a problem. Like, the Berlin wall. How fun it's the same country who did that...
  Just saying.
  NB : I am surprised I am the first to make that comment. >
  
  FSB isn't border service, it's the successor to the KGB. >
  
  FSB are responsible for the Border Control in Russia. >
  
  Not to discredit your comment, but to make fun of my ethnocentrism as an American. 
  "Yeah sure buddy I'll go learn the Norway-en language and then I'll get a good grasp on what this article says" >
  
  Still the møøse for me. Old fashioned copy-paste to Google Translate did the trick, though. Tldr: some guy crossed, says he used to be with Wagner. >
  
  A møøse bit my sister >
  
  FSB cannot catch møøse and squirrel? >
  
  We kinda just assumed the shots were fired by Russian agents .. because they missed. >
  
  Federalnaja Sluzjba Bezopasnosti >
  
  These border guards have to realize that they are no longer border guards which would be deployed to defend the border from outside aggression. These guys are now prison guards. 
  At what point do they ask themselves "are we the baddies...?" >
  
  
  These guys are now prison guards.
  
  So...just like the decades and decades of the former USSR.  This is the Russia I grew up with. >
  
  What an achievement on Putin’s part: he had freedom in his hands, but his imagination was so limited he could only recreate the gulag state. What a poisonous little turd. >
  
  Sorry, but what is FSB? >
  
  It's the new & improved KGB.
  Hard to imagine how bad it's got to be to defect and go states-evidence against Wagner, Putin's favorite mercenary group. >
  
  Thanks, I had no idea there was a "new" KGB. How fun for everyone, I'm sure. Ugh. >
  
  They have been around since the fall in 91. >
  
  KGB, GRU, SVR, FSB, once a chekist, always a chekist. >
  
  NKVD don’t want to be left out! >
  
  The defector is described as a "new recruit' - which may have been a prisoner who was released by Putin and his war on Ukraine.     
  So much for prison recruitment...or lack of vetting. >
  
  In another post, The Defector was described as the head of the Wagner group. >
  
  Literally from the above article:
  
  The man’s identity is revealed by gulagu.net as Andrei Medvedev. He left the combat group of Wagner after his 4-months contract, signed in late July, came to an end >
  
  Literally also from the article:
  
  According to Gulagu.net, this is the first time a former commander from one of the units of Wagner private military company (pmc) had fled Russia for Europe.
  
  I'd guess he was higher up in the Russian military and then signed a 4-mo contract to be a commander for Wagner. >
  
  Okay, so not the head of the Wagner group. You agree with me. >
  
  Nice that they have to post his name and photo.  Make it easier for Putin"s thugs to go after him. >
  
  The fact he was a commander and was chased across the border makes me believe they already knew who he was. >
  
  Lol. >
  
  Stop stop, Putin war >
  
  I don't see anything other than the title that mentions shots being fired? >
  
  little putin's dream: Back to the CCCP and The cold war.
  So he can stay as a dicky-tator and keep his loot as long as he lives. >
  
  It’s been fun watching Russia melt down over what was supposed to be a six week action. 
  Honestly this is how the US should be doing power projection around the world. Not the cluster fuck that we created in Iraq. >
  
  Not fun for me. Being part Russian part Ukrainian, I'm watching a stupid fuck tearing apart my both identities, my friends and relatives for almost a decade now. Fuck this shit! >
  
  Putin destroying Russia is about as fun as Bush making me lose my friend in Iraq (my condolences to the Iraqi people too). Fuck all this war shit >
  
  So what does this mean >
  
  Nothing really new, sadly. This guy will testify, and the better that could happen after that is that Yvgeny Prigozhin would be recognized war criminal.
  After that, he won't be able to fly US / European countries but if he stays in Russia he'll be fine.
  Maybe we could take new intels but nothing really big imo. >
  
  Did someone burn one sign on the picture and leave the other one? Was it the person walking away? >
  
  Good luck to him. I hope they protect him well, the FSB is very good at assassinations >
  
  Execution by sledgehammer.. Jesus.. >
  
  This is stupid, why would the FSB guarding the border? It would be like the CIA or FBI guarding the American Border >
  
  "Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in, to prevent them from leaving us." -JFK
  Rings true here too. >
  
  Trump: "hold my beer" >
  
  Trump didn't have any plan to trap Americans in their own country, what's your point? >
  
  Russian s like to build walls. >
  
  A true Russian wall would be impractical.
  It is one of the reason for the Russian invasion. >
  
  These border guards have to realize that they are no longer border guards which would be deployed to defend the border from outside aggression. These guys are now prison guards. 
  At what point do they ask themselves "are we the baddies...?" >
  
  
  These guys are now prison guards.
  
  So...just like the decades and decades of the former USSR.  This is the Russia I grew up with. >
  
  What an achievement on Putin’s part: he had freedom in his hands, but his imagination was so limited he could only recreate the gulag state. What a poisonous little turd. >
  
  If freedom was so benefical for dictators over harsher regimes, dictators would simply abandon dictatorships and promote freedom. >
  
  That’s like saying “if love and understanding worked, husbands wouldn’t beat their wives.” Wife beaters haven’t discovered some great secret. They’re just fools who don’t understand subtlety.
  The fact that Putin couldn’t see how beneficial freedom could be for him is exactly why I say that he has no imagination. It’s not necessary to do what he’s doing to gain power, be remembered as great, etc. He just doesn’t know anything else because he’s a soviet creature, brought up in that era and carefully educated in brutality. >
  
  Weird analogy- Its perfectly legal to beat your wife in Russia. Putin changed the laws to make it so. >
  
  All the more fitting then. >
  
  When your border service is there more to block you from leaving your country than controling what is coming in, it shows a problem. Like, the Berlin wall. How fun it's the same country who did that...
  Just saying.
  NB : I am surprised I am the first to make that comment. >
  
  My dad was in the Norwegian navy in the 80s I think it was, really kinda sent chills down my spine when he told me about seeing the guard towers along the coast and searchlights looking for anyone trying to escape.  They were doing something with NATO which brought him to the coast, and I remember as a kid not fully understanding that they were meant to keep people in.  And then it kinda clicked when I asked who would want to invade?  He said
  "they aren't worried about that."
  That kinda stuck with me for some reason, his descriptions were very vivid, clearly something that also stuck with my dad for decades. >
  
  
  My dad was in the Norwegian navy
  
  So is the bar code thing true? >
  
  Yeah they have barcodes on the ships so when they come into port they can Scandinavian. >
  
  
  they can Scandinavian
  
  Oh my god. >
  
  Not to discredit your comment, but to make fun of my ethnocentrism as an American. 
  "Yeah sure buddy I'll go learn the Norway-en language and then I'll get a good grasp on what this article says" >
  
  Still the møøse for me. Old fashioned copy-paste to Google Translate did the trick, though. Tldr: some guy crossed, says he used to be with Wagner. >
  
  A møøse bit my sister >
  
  No realli! She was Karving her initials on the møøse with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given her by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian møvies: "The Høt Hands of an Oslo Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge Mølars of Horst Nordfink"... >
  
  Horst really did have huge molars tho, that man was a freak. >
  
  We kinda just assumed the shots were fired by Russian agents .. because they missed. >
  
  they got guns from afghanistan war era, with warped barrel, just slightly better than the ones in fun fairs shooting baloons.