Chapter 700 Everyone Believes But No One Has Seen It
Xiao Peng gasped after hearing this. Was Ivan planning to assassinate Akhmedov?
Russia is undoubtedly the country that has most thoroughly implemented the practice of assassination. They have zero tolerance for traitors. Anyone who betrays Russia, no matter how many years have passed, will have a "Sword of Damocles" hanging over their head, with no certainty of when their life will be taken.
To be more precise, the history of Russia is a history of assassinations. Centuries ago, many tsars, such as Peter III, Paul I, and Nicholas II, were assassinated! If even the tsars suffered such a fate, what about ordinary people?
The people on Russia's assassination list could write a book: former Ukrainian Prime Minister Lev Libet; Bulgarian writer Georgy Markov, opposition journalist Anna Polikovskaya, former Russian Deputy Prime Minister Nemtsov, opposition leader Alexei Navalny, former Russian Security Service spy Litvinenko, former KGB agent Sergei Skripal...
There's a joke from the Soviet era that illustrates this phenomenon well: Stalin sees the ghost of Lenin, and the two discuss their governing policies. Lenin, a little worried, says, "I'm just worried about what happens if they disagree with your policies and don't follow you." Stalin smiles and says, "That's okay. They'll follow you then."
Of course, this joke was born during a period when Western media were carrying out a series of actions to discredit Stalin in order to overthrow the former Soviet regime. However, there is a reason for the birth of such a joke, and that is the vengeful nature of the Russians.
However, whether this was really an assassination is still debatable.
For example, the Sergei Skripal incident.
Sergei is a former KGB agent who provided intelligence to MI6 in the 1990s. He was a British spy. After his crimes were exposed, he was sentenced to 13 years in prison for treason. In 2010, during a spy swap between the US and Russia, Sergei left Russia and sought asylum in the UK.
In 2018, he and his daughter died after being exposed to an unknown substance in a London shopping mall. His wife and child had previously died in accidents. At the time, the UK, France, and the US all accused Russia of using a chemical agent called Novichok.
Russia immediately launched a counter-argument: "Since you claim we were the ones who poisoned the patient, why didn't you allow us to investigate at that time?" If Sergei was injected with Novichok, how did the British doctors at the scene obtain the antidote? Why should France be involved in the investigation of a Russian citizen's poisoning? Was the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) informed of this investigation? What laws in the UK allow French colleagues to conduct an internal investigation? Were the French present when the samples were taken? What "signatures" were used to determine that the poison originated in Russia?
The UK didn't answer any of these questions, and continued to accuse China: "You did it!" This is similar to the US holding up "laundry detergent" at the UN and claiming it was a chemical weapon.
However, it is not without reason for the British to accuse the Russians, and their basis is "Novichok".
'Novichok' is a highly toxic substance that is well-known around the world but for which there is no real evidence.
Isn’t this a contradiction?
The poison with this name was first born in "Soviet literature". This "Soviet literature" is in quotation marks, and it basically consists of articles published by "public intellectuals" funded by the West.
The West, however, fervently believed these articles, claiming Novichok was a chemical weapon developed by the Soviet Union in the 1970s, five to eight times more toxic than the infamous VX nerve agent. This belief was further reinforced by a subsequent incident: Russian chemist Mirzaia, after defecting to the US, published a book describing Novichok, claiming it could be in both liquid and solid form, and could be separated into two distinct materials. Separately, they were non-toxic, but only became toxic when combined.
Although no one in the world has produced a sample of "Novichok" to this day, the Western world firmly believes in the existence of this substance and insists that this is the Russian method!
Xiao Peng was very confused by this matter. If the Russians really used "Novichok" to assassinate Sergei, how could the British have the antidote for "Novichok"?
There is no way to study this matter. Anyway, this is how the world is. Whoever controls the media has the final say!
Although Russia has experience in assassinations, it will not use "Novichok". A famous example is the assassination of Litvinenko.
Litvinenko was originally a Russian spy. He later defected to the UK and joined MI6, becoming a British spy.
Litvinenko served as Berezovsky's bodyguard while in Russia.
Who was Berezovsky? He was one of Russia's oligarchs, holding a prominent position in the Russian government at the time. He once invested hundreds of millions of dollars to form an opposition party against the Russian dictator, only to be defeated by him and flee to the UK to buy West Ham United. His escape from Russia was thanks to a tip from Berezovsky, and his application for political asylum in the UK was made possible by Litvinenko's testimony against the Russian government.
As a result, Berezovsky turned against Litvinenko. As the owner of West Ham United and a legitimate upper-class person, how could he continue to be with Litvinenko, who was his bodyguard?
Just a few years later, Litvinenko was assassinated and died of polonium poisoning.
The incident was also very strange. Litvinenko was poisoned while drinking tea with two of his former colleagues (Russian agents). So the British directly pointed the finger at Russia.
But an interesting thing happened: later, the same polonium radiation was found in Berezovsky's office as in the cafe where Litvinenko was assassinated. What does this have to do with Berezovsky, who has nothing to do with him?
So Britain and Russia started a war of words again. Britain said it was the Russians who did it; Russia said it was Berezovsky who did it to silence the witnesses. In any case, neither side had any key evidence, so they just blamed each other.
Everyone knows what happened to Berenenkosky: he tragically died in his villa a few years later, and the cause of his death remains unknown. Xiao Peng didn't believe in conspiracy theories, but Ivan's words really scared him—could he really just kill someone if he said so?
Ivan on the other end of the line suddenly burst into laughter. "Xiao, what a sense of humor you have! When did I ever say I wanted to kill him? At least there's no such plan in the last six years."
"...Can we be serious?"
"Okay, I won't tease you anymore... I don't have any plans for this within the next ten years!"
"roll!"
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