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Putin can censor the press but not the war's death toll
Original: # Putin can # censor journalists, jail critics and flood television with # propaganda . But he can’t make the # dead com
Commentators are highlighting a pointed critique of Vladimir Putin: his government can censor journalists, jail critics and saturate television with propaganda, but it cannot hide the dead. The remarks follow discussion of leaked files said to expose the real human cost of Russia's war against Ukraine. Observers argue the most damaging revelation would not be any state secret but the true scale of Russian casualties, which the Kremlin has worked to conceal.
Why now: Leaked files reportedly revealing the human cost of Russia's war in Ukraine have reignited debate over Kremlin censorship and casualty secrecy.
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