Also..... The other thing.
"If we had really poisoned him, he'd be dead"
From article:
"Controversially, Amnesty International revoked his status as a "prisoner of conscience" in February, before conceding it had been subjected to an "orchestrated campaign" to "delist" him and then reversing its decision.
At issue were xenophobic comments he had made years before but had not disavowed. In videos dating back to 2007 he appeared to compare ethnic conflict to tooth decay and likened immigrants to cockroaches. He has also said the Crimea peninsula "de facto belongs to Russia", despite international condemnation of Russia's 2014 annexation of the Ukrainian territory."
(And idk if the other dentists jokes (+inside jokes) are still morbidly funny --- it basically means contract killer now - devolution of humor is a real travesty)
-> at the time Russia did need to pick something up from Germany... So there's that too.
*I'm still not sure*