< p _ngcontent-sc181="" class="news-annotation">Today, Evgeny Prigozhin and Ramzan Kadyrov play the role of public horror stories. This is done so that people think that let Vladimir Putin remain in power so that “this” does not come. /strong> was expressed by the publicist, Deutsche Welle columnist Konstantin Eggert. According to him, there are people who are afraid of this both in the West and in Russia.
“Today these characters play the role of public monsters. It used to be Kadyrov, now Prigogine has taken first place. Why? So that all kinds of panicked people in the West and in Russia think that if “this one” comes to power, then Putin is better,” explained Eggert.
There is permission from the Kremlin
According to the publicist, Prigozhin could not have recruited Wagnerites without assistance from the state and without all infrastructure that allows delivering all these “sledgehammers” to the front. Logistics takes place through the actions of the Russian army and the railway.
This is an operation in which the Wagnerites are heavily dependent on the support of the Russian army and, apparently, the secret services. They are an integral part of this system,” said Eggert.
The DW columnist believes that the appearance of Prigozhin in the public sphere is confirmation from the Kremlin that the policy of the Russian state is to attract mercenaries on a scale comparable to the United States. PMCs are not banned in America. Russian legislation formally prohibits the involvement of mercenaries.
“But now these mercenaries are not just being hired, ballads are being made about them, they are being hidden under the lenses of federal television, their families are being given benefits. Or they say they are, because we shouldn’t forget about corruption and theft,” Konstantin Eggert noted.
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“Mina” under regime
According to Egger, the legitimization of mercenaries is a “mine” laid under the Putin regime. The FSB officers must understand that Putin “blew up” the idea that the Empire, the USSR, Yeltsin and even himself once consolidated at one time – this is that the monopoly on weapons and violence should remain in the hands of the state.
“Citizens should have a maximum of hunting weapons, and they should go hunting roe deer with them. And today panegyrics are heard on the air for all these mercenaries with quite serious weapons. This blurs the idea that the state has created for several centuries,” the DW observer is sure .
He thinks this will hit Putin sooner or later.
Any conditional Ivan Petrovich looks and says: “He went to the front, they said about him that he was wonderful, and he was a former criminal. They gave him a weapon, which means that weapons are in the hands of the population – this is normal. for everyone,” Egger explained.
The publicist is sure that the consequences of the public “Prigozhinism” will definitely be. And many representatives of the regime will be frightened by what they themselves have created.
What to expect from Prigozhin?
- Evgeny Prigozhin called for closing access to You-Tube in Russia. According to opposition politician Gennady Gudkov, this is due to the fact that YouTube and other sites on the network do not work for Putin, but against him. He compared Prigozhin with the owner of the house, in one of the rooms of which mold appeared. And he, instead of getting rid of her, decides to destroy the whole house.
- Also, the owner of the PIK “Wagner” said that there are traitors in the presidential administration of Russia and threw another accusation towards the Russian Ministry of Defense. According to the ISW article, this means that Prigozhin feels complete impunity.
- Press Secretary of the Russian President Peskov decided to indirectly accuse Prigozhin of deliberately covering the conflict between the Ministry of Defense and the Wagner PMC in the Russian information space. The leader of the Wagnerites responded to the statement of speaker Putin, saying that “he has no reason not to trust Peskov.” He did not deny rumors of a conflict within the Kremlin, but on the contrary, he decided to continue to fuel them.
