Putin wanted to redeem Russia’s history. He’s now haunted by it.
Washington Post
Russia’s president likened the Wagner mutiny to the 1917 crisis that saw the Russian empire slide into the Bolshevik Revolution, appearing to style himself as the flailing, bungling Czar Nicholas II.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/06/27/putin-history-1917-bolshevik-czar-revolution-crisis/