The way Daria Dugina died, and above all the later - even immediate - reaction of propaganda apparatus in Russia, can be 1 of the informing signs erstwhile it comes to the state of relations among the Cremlow elites in the era of war with Ukraine. We are dealing with a visible mix of violent fracturing fights, blurring the boundaries between the ways in which peculiar services and average forms of criminal activity operate, with increasingly absurd lines of propaganda narratives towards the interior receiver. All of this is imposed on military aggression, which clearly highlighted all the shortcomings of the strategical pillar of the power strategy in Russia, or the armed forces. Historical experiences, referring to the period of regulation of Vladimir Putin himself, but besides to a broader view of the ZSRS/Russia period, may propose that we are facing a proverbial time of blood and lead in the service of war.