He was the head of the Wagner Group. A thief, then selling hot dogs, then owning a chain of restaurants, and thus a billionaire, oligarch and leader of the army of mercenaries.
He was on the FBI's wanted list. He became 1 of Putin's trustees. Her soldiers fought on the front line in Russia's war against Ukraine. And if not Ukraine, it's all over Africa. Their fame followed them, they were “terrifying.” That summer, at the head of his troops, he marched against Moscow. And on August 23, his private jet crashed close Moscow, on its way to St. Petersburg. There were 10 people aboard, all killed.
Prigozhyn was born in Leningrad and died on his way home in St. Petersburg. The road from Leningrad to St. Petersburg is bumpy, bumpy and dangerous. Getting from Leningrad to Petersburg was possibly more difficult, bitter and frequently more ruthless than from Petersburg to Leningrad, even though it was not a walk. The Prigojin is dead.
And now everyone should look themselves in the eye and admit that erstwhile he went to Moscow with his soldiers to carry out a coup or “only” intimidate the Kremlin knew he was already dead. Fearing the Kremlin is not and has never been the key to longevity. It always ended in war or open terror, mass murder, internment camps, open executions. Even if the threat wasn't real.
Recently executions, liquidations and settlements have become any kind of accidents. Middle-aged or younger people, and even a small older, fall out of the windows of Russian cities to break up there and unite with Russian homeland, parent Russia. Russia is infinite by reason. Indeed, and not only the well of the past is deep, but besides the soul of the Russian people.
And in the soul of this nation, the Russian president has a place. Despite people falling from windows and planes falling from the sky. Chekhov, Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Pushkin, Tarkowski and Michałkow could only be born from this deep soul of the nation, and this is something that the West will never understand.
The West is rational, pragmatic – and completely and scandalously hypocritical. The West built prosperity from Protestant “ethic” “time is money” and the Russians keep time at any time to afford nothingness. And, of course, the Protestant "ethic" of "time money" and its undisputed industriousness required the West to invade, colonize and plunder the planet throughout its history. The British invented concentration camps in the Boer War, bred a separate breed of dogs to attack the genitals of their enemies, but at 5:00 p.m. they always drank tea in blameless snow white gloves.
This West will now be horrified by the death and execution of the Primogyn, and in this death it will rediscover its superiority. specified things could never happen in our advanced, pristine democracies, in our beautiful states ruled by the regulation of law, right there in the barbarous Russian wilderness, so delight see and be terrified of what would happen in our way if we did not arm the Ukrainians!
Here's what they're gonna say. And they'll believe it. Osama bin Laden was an American man in the fight against the Soviets in Afghanistan. They funded him, armed him, protected him, smiled at him, and the Western secret services watched him safely. Then Osama bin Laden turned against them, conducted a terrorist attack on America – and was murdered. Right? I think so. All right, but don't talk about the regulation of law and democracy. At least a small more careful, with little vigor, little conviction.
Saddam Hussein was a man of Americans, of the West. His war with Iran came in useful due to the fact that Iran was seen by the United States as its own backyard – why? – and Khomeini's emergence to power did not like. They rapidly recognized Saddam as a “democrat”. They funded him, armed him. Then, erstwhile Saddam threatened Kuwait and became besides independent, he abruptly became a dictator.
And then they lied that he had anthrax and all kinds of chemical weapons and that he was threatening the highly democratic and regulation of law of the Western world, so his country was attacked and he was captured and then murdered. What happened is called execution, political murder. Then it turned out that Saddam had no chemical or another weapons, and it turned out that Western intelligence services had already passed it on to their governments before the invasion of Iraq. So it was all a giant lie.
Next biggest villain: Gaddafi. Black September, Lockerbie, killing Yvonne Fletcher – Gaddafi did not dress up in words. Then he realized that it was time to improve his relation with the West. He allowed global inspectors into Libya, destroyed the atomic and chemical weapons program, signed a atomic power agreement with France, visited Tony Blair, and in 2006 the US restored diplomatic relations with him and removed Libya from the list of countries supporting terrorism.
Gaddafi became, if not a man of the West, a partner of the West. The “Arab Spring” came, organized and funded by Western (mainly American) secret services, which besides reached Libya. Gaddafi was killed like a dog by “revolutionaries”. He deserves his fate, at least in his case, there is no uncertainty about it. But he was just 1 of those whose life and death prove that being a friend of the West is very dangerous, risky and unpredictable.
The Primogyn plane fell from the sky. From the blue, clouded Russian sky the decaying body of Prigozhyn united with parent Russia. I bet that plane didn't just fall out of the sky. And I ask very quietly, almost whispering: do you think that if, say, in the United States, the leader of mercenaries marches his troops against Washington to overthrow the incumbent president, he will live a long life? Even if he could escape?
Zsolt Bayer
Behind: Magyar Nemzet
photo public domain
Original title: The way of the Priggoine to death
