25 April 2026

Silicon Bites Ep324 | 2026-04-25 | Russia’s chorus of dissent — and the moral void at its centre. “We have indeed built feudalism. In a feudal society, there are no rights, only privileges.”
That was written on March 30th, 2026, on Telegram, by Alexei Chadayev — a professional Kremlin propagandist who now heads Ushkuynik, one of the key centres for Russian military drone development. A man embedded in the war machine itself.

And he is not alone. In the past four weeks, a cascade of voices has broken through the wall of silence in Russia — bloggers, influencers, actors, Z-patriots, Duma deputies, even state TV insiders. Some are crying on Instagram. Some are calling Putin a war criminal. Some are demanding he be taken off air. One was put in a psychiatric hospital for thirty days.