were completely loyal. So they came to sort of arresting an oligarch, they'd all be on board. So that was the model. I suppose the twist to give to all of this was that this was done quite openly. So it was openly telegraphed that all these parties are loyal and controlled and part of the Kremlin. So this is a very, very interesting layering of messages. Yes, we do have some freedom, but actually it's all controlled and don't you get any ideas. So Koav, who was the kind of guy who was running all of this, who was kind of in charge of media policy and in charge of running the so-called parliament, would leak photos of his own office with, you know, telephones to all these party leaders, making it very clear that he was in charge. And then it's kind of hard to, sometimes I find it hard to grasp for, for Westerners. This wasn't about conning people. This was about saying, this is a game. These are the rules of the game. These are the limits of the game. And then on an even more subtle (22/57)
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