A dude died horrifically after being sucked in some machine. Basically turned into paste spread all over the place. And people just kinda literally scrubbed it off the floor walls and machinery and threw it all in a bin, because they had to decorate that hall due to factory directors 30 year anniversary or something and didn't want to spoil the moment and get punished.

So they had their party and then under pressure from unions or something like that were like "oh yeah also a dude died a week ago, here's the paperwork, it's all fine, don't worry about it".

This system of small bosses terrified of bringing bad news to higher ups to not get punished is a core of soviet and now russian bureaucracy.

Now imagine that on a govemment level, in military sector. Tons of officers reporting downplayed casualties and exaggerated wins to colonels, they report those even worse to generals, etc etc until some dude brings Putin a document in red envelope saying that Russia has no losses in the war, they defeated 50 gazillion nazis, 50 himars, etc oh and btw sanctions don't work, russia economy stronk, it's the decadent west that suffer themselves and freeze without our gas etc.

It's a system where propaganda is told from top to bottom, but then it festers and goes back up exaggerated and the funny thing, higher ups believe it themselves because those kissasses are their only source of information

Fascinating really The typical story of CEO bringing company down by surrounding himself with "yesmen" but on a national scale with global international consequences.