🕳️ Released Phantom Node 35: Sergey Chemezov. The Empire’s Purse
- Foundation date
03 August 2025
🕳️ Released Phantom Node 35: Sergey Chemezov. The Empire’s Purse
Industrial schemes under state cover. Enrichment through war
Who is Sergey Chemezov?
Chemezov’s rise is not merely the tale of one man’s loyalty — it is the story of how power and money fuse under an imperial cloak. A close ally of Putin since their KGB days in Dresden, Chemezov became the architect of military–industrial privatization, quietly turning state assets into oligarchic leverage.
Node Type:
Oligarchic Engine of the Regime
State:
Above Law, In the Shadow of Power
Mode of Control:
Monopoly, Defense Contracts, Strategic Mergers
Phantom Image:
The smiling face of a technocrat. The invisible weight of bloodstained billions.
Instead of the Phantom:
Traces of wartime profits. Ghosts of expropriated industries.
The Core of the Node
What sustained him?
KGB ties and personal loyalty to Putin
Exclusive control of state military-industrial conglomerates
Rechanneling national resources into opaque privatization deals
How did he become a phantom?
Officially a “civil servant,” he acted as a parallel financial and logistics operator to the Kremlin’s global schemes.
His companies manufactured weapons, tanks, and electronic warfare systems — and his influence kept growing with every sanctioned war.
He embodied systemic crony capitalism masked as patriotic enterprise.
Why does the phantom still exist?
Chemezov still heads Rostec, a state-owned industrial giant with over 700 enterprises.
He remains untouched by domestic prosecution and largely immune to internal critique.
His companies are entwined in global networks — from Dubai to Latin America, sustaining logistical flows even under sanctions.
Phantom’s Condition:
Not a shadow — a system.
His absence would collapse dozens of inner circles.
A phantom so deeply embedded that his removal would trigger structural tremors.
After the Regime:
Chemezov’s phantom would haunt both legal systems and public memory.
Archives of corruption and international deals would remain encrypted unless actively uncovered.
Rebuilding a transparent industrial sector would require surgical dismantling of his legacy.
Collective Reaction
We see not just a man — but a scheme.
A system of profitable war.
An empire managed from the shadows.
Key Principle
No war machinery without civilian theft.
No “strategic contracts” without oligarchic fraud.
Alt-text:
Graphite portrait of Sergey Chemezov — a semi-silhouetted figure holding a metallic mechanism of gears and rockets, surrounded by industrial maps, ships, and factory outlines. The background is filled with military-industrial imagery: drones, production lines, and weapons. Tones of graphite, sepia, rust, and dark green dominate the palette, evoking the texture of secrecy, corruption, and wartime profiteering.
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Anna Pivtorak Kostyuk
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03.08.2025
