Online Public Relations Thoughts

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner Group, is dead, killed in a plane crash.  In Putin's Russia, that is a suspicious circumstance.  Putin has attempted and succeeded in assassinating others. In a more democratic society, people would assume it was an accident.  Not so, in Russia.  What kind of society can tolerate such thoughts?  It must be hard for citizens to guard their remarks and look over their shoulders.  It is the return of the old Soviet system without the Marx.  The West has its deep flaws and faults but free communications is not one of them.