{"id":2011613,"date":"2023-08-25T03:07:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T07:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/prigozhin-plane-crash-worsens-putins-prison-culture-of-revenge\/"},"modified":"2023-08-25T03:10:16","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T07:10:16","slug":"prigozhin-plane-crash-worsens-putins-prison-culture-of-revenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/prigozhin-plane-crash-worsens-putins-prison-culture-of-revenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Prigozhin plane crash deepens Putin&#8217;s vengeful &#8216;prison culture&#8217;."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fprigozhin-plane-crash-worsens-putins-prison-culture-of-revenge%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2011613&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Russian Paramilitary Chief Yevgeny Prigozhin&#8217;s Assassination Sparks Concerns of Internal Turmoil<\/h2>\n<p>The apparent \u2064assassination of Russian paramilitary chief Yevgeny \u2063Prigozhin has the potential \u2062to ignite another cycle of internal\u2064 bloodshed, despite Russian President Vladimir Putin&#8217;s efforts\u200d to assert authority within the Russian system.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Basically, \u2064you are creating \u2064another \u2063group of people who want revenge, again,&#8221; a senior European official observed. &#8220;So it&#8217;s not solving the root issues.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Prigozhin&#8217;s death has triggered an outpouring of grief and anger among his followers within the Wagner Group&#8217;s online \u2062community and at makeshift shrines in St. Petersburg, his hometown. Putin, who expressed his\u2064 &#8220;sincere condolences&#8221; for the \u2064death of \u200bthe Wagner brass, is widely believed to have sanctioned \u200bthe move against Prigozhin in response to his former ally&#8217;s failed attempt to march on\u200c Moscow in June.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The fact that our best soldiers died in battle is the will of God,&#8221; a Prigozhin-aligned Telegram channel wrote on Thursday. &#8220;Probably\u2063 whoever organized it thinks he&#8217;s won, but he hasn&#8217;t&#8230; if it&#8217;s a \u200dknife in the back, the motherland will survive but\u2063 your \u200cfate as Judas is \u2063unenviable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This furious statement reflects the loyalty code that \u200dPrigozhin enforced \u200bthrough his own displays of\u2062 ostentatious violence. Once known as &#8220;Putin&#8217;s chef,&#8221; Prigozhin rose to prominence during Russia&#8217;s campaign to overthrow Ukrainian \u2062President Volodymyr Zelensky. The Wagner Group, battle-tested in the Syrian civil war and bolstered by recruits from Russian prisons, gained a \u2063reputation for both competence and brutality. The sledgehammer became a symbol of the \u200bwar in Russian\u200d society after the Wagner Group used it in a filmed execution \u200cof \u200da deserter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think \u2063this movie is called &#8216;A Dog&#8217;s Death to a Dog,'&#8221; Prigozhin remarked\u200d in November as the video of the \u2062killing circulated on Twitter. &#8220;This show demonstrates that the sledgehammer-ed [man] didn&#8217;t find happiness in Ukraine but was\u200b met with unkind but fair people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This incident highlighted\u2064 Prigozhin&#8217;s emergence as a martial figure with \u2063a flair \u2062for performance, amidst setbacks\u2064 for the wider\u200b Russian military campaign. He cultivated a reputation for serious-minded commitment to military tasks, often publicly mocking Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and other senior leaders. The acrimony between factions of Russia&#8217;s\u2063 power structures shattered the facade of traditional Russian institutions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know whether the Taliban government could do this,&#8221; said Russian economist Konstantin \u2063Sonin, a Putin critic. &#8220;These sort of things happened in Afghanistan in the 90s, where they had&#8230; enemies, but ministers in\u200c the same cabinet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>These denunciations foreshadowed Prigozhin&#8217;s eventual break with \u200bMoscow officialdom and his shocking yet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russian-mercenaries-short-lived-rebellion-could-have-lasting-consequences-for-putin\/\" title=\"Russian mercenaries' failed rebellion may have long-term repercussions for Putin.\">short-lived uprising<\/a>, which Putin labeled an &#8220;armed mutiny&#8221; but ultimately chose to overlook to avoid a bloody \u200bshowdown in\u200b Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was \u2064pretty clear at the time that that was not\u2062 likely to be a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sexual-consent-app-idea-draws-criticism-in-australia\/\" title=\"Sexual Consent App Idea Draws Criticism In Australia\">long-term solution<\/a>&#8230; that long term, this is \u2064not workable,&#8221; said\u200d Rob Lee, a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. &#8220;So, it&#8217;s not surprising that they took some kind \u2062of action.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to Igor Girkin, an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/prigozhin-plane-crash-worsens-putins-prison-culture-of-revenge\/\" title=\"Prigozhin plane crash deepens Putin's vengeful 'prison culture'.\">ultranationalist war\u200d hawk recently imprisoned<\/a> for mocking Putin&#8217;s leadership, assessments like Sonin&#8217;s point to the right decade but the wrong country. Girkin downplayed the idea \u200dthat Putin or other senior military leaders ordered Prigozhin&#8217;s death but hinted at more mysterious malevolence \u2063within Russia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Here we can talk about the &#8216;cleansing of \u2062key witnesses,&#8217; about which there was not a sound in the media,&#8221; Girkin stated\u200b through his attorney on social media. &#8220;It is yet\u2062 another evidence of the further deepening of \u2063unrest in Russia. Prigozhin should have \u2064been tried, not eliminated; now he will not be able to \u200dtestify. The dashing 90s are returning, and this is very dangerous and fraught.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For \u200cSonin and other Putin critics, the public spectacle of Prigozhin&#8217;s death\u200d underscores the\u200c decay of Russian institutions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I do not believe that Putin will\u200b ever restore \u2063order, and\u200d these things will \u200dcontinue to happen until he is\u200b gone,&#8221;\u2064 Sonin \u2063remarked. &#8220;People who come after him&#8230; it will be up to them to root out these rogue security services and rogue Army personnel. A normal state does not\u200d have \u2064these \u2064killer\u2064 squads.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, Putin seems to be living by the \u2063code that Prigozhin once touted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It just\u200c confirms how the prison \u2062culture is ruling there; that&#8217;s the way \u2062prison [disputes] are solved&#8230; It&#8217;s absolutely prison \u200cculture,&#8221; the senior European\u200d official\u200d stated. &#8220;The\u2064 motivation is built \u2063on threatening [people], but with\u200c that, you are not getting\u200d 100% out of the people. You cannot even call them your people because you have such big differences between the factions.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The assassination of Yevgeny Prigozhin, a Russian paramilitary chief, may trigger further internal violence, contradicting President Putin&#8217;s aim to establish control. A senior European official noted that this would only fuel revenge-seeking individuals, failing to address the underlying problems. Nikki Haley made this assertion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2011614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2011613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2011613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2011614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2011613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2011613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2011613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}