Crimea and Punishment

[istrauss6]

Found this:

Raskolnikov dropped into a high-backed, Romanov-like chair. The kind of chair Rasputin would sit in. He stared deep into the eyes of Ilya Petrovitch.

“It was I…” began Raskolnikov.

“Drink some water.”

Raskolnikov shook his head. It was too late for beverages.

“It was I who killed Putin.”

Ilya Petrovitch gasped, instantly regretting offering water to a murderer.

“He invaded the Ukraine,” explained Raskolnikov. “My philosophical sensibilities could not permit it. If this kind of thing had happened anywhere else in the world, the international community would have stopped it by now.”

“No,” replied Ilya Petrovitch. “That is impossible.”

Ilya Petrovitch peered around to make sure the room was empty. And it was. It was as empty as a Baskin Robbins in Siberia. He whispered, “Because no one killed Putin.” Ilya Petrovitch snatched off his wig like a Russian nesting doll, revealing himself to be Putin. In a plumber costume.

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[Whosis]

I'm guessing this is a reference to Crime and Punishment? It's the one novel I've read through and had no idea what I was reading the entire time, mainly because of the difficult to remember name of characters. That is interesting though. Putin is probably an easier name to get a handle on than any name in the novel.