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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Prigozhin was born in the former Soviet Union and served ten years in prison when he was younger. After he was freed from jail, he ran a hot dog stand before becoming the owner of several fancy restaurants in Saint Petersburg. His restaurants brought Prigozhin into close contact with Putin.

I feel like we missed a few steps on the way there, but it’s still an interesting origin story.

[–] danieljackson 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin

Born to a poor ethnic Georgian family in the town of Gori [...], Stalin joined the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party [...] and raised funds for Vladimir Lenin's Bolshevik faction via robberies, kidnappings and protection rackets.

Local thugs/mafia-leaders raising to power in Russia/USSR is not a new thing.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, Western leaders are saints

[–] danieljackson 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

What you call 'whataboutism' we call 'double standards' or 'hypocrisy'

[–] tldrbot 6 points 1 year ago

tl;dr:

The Wagner group is a private military army that's been fighting alongside Russia's regular army in Ukraine, but tensions over how the war has been fought have been building for months. Putin has appeared to acknowledge that Russia's military has lost control of Rostov-on-Don and there are indications Wagner fighters have moved north to Voronezh, about 320 miles from Moscow. Ukrainian officials declined to comment directly on whether Prigozhin was leading an insurrection against Putin. U.S. officials observing the chaos unfolding in Russia Saturday have reached few conclusions about the rupture between Putin and Prigozhin. Prigozhin, 61, is the head of the Wagner mercenary group, a paramilitary organization that was supporting the Russian government in its war against Ukraine before Prigozhin apparently turned against Russia's military.


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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

No matter who loses, Ukraine wins

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

How far are they from Moscow? And i wonder if the US is behind this

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Putin will say it is.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

200km from Moscow they turned around

[–] lunarshot 1 points 1 year ago

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8JG6MK1/

I liked this summary from Phil Defranco

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