In IK-14, the prisoners were driven out to the parade ground at 9 a.m., and soon a helicopter arrived and landed near the area next to the gas station. Prigozhin and his retinue arrived by helicopter and immediately went to the IK. There he read a speech one to one, as in other colonies: thugs are needed; there will be execution for alcohol and drugs, for looting and rape. “This is the beginning of the 3rd World War,” Prigogine promised the prisoners. He added that he would have to fight for half a year and then go home. Moreover, he promised that he would “get him out of the zone” if the prisoner was imprisoned again. About 300 people took the bait. “Mostly they’re just boys, crap and really narrow-minded. Even a lame Tajik who can hardly walk went there,” said a source from the Cheka-OGPU.
According to him, the administration of the penal colony gave instructions to the brigadiers to encourage prisoners to enroll in the PMC. The brigadiers themselves loudly and pointedly declared that this was a great chance for them and for everyone, and they went with the prisoners to enroll in the PMC. And later, when the lists were compiled, the brigadiers were not there. When the convict, after filing an application, said that he had changed his mind about joining the PMC, he was told that nothing could be changed. Then, as Prigozhin himself promised the prisoners in his speech that they could change their minds before they boarded the transport.
The correctional officers intimidated the prisoners. Prigozhin said that the next arrival of people from the PMC will be in 3 months. After what Prigozhin said, it was announced that on the next visit they would no longer be taken to war voluntarily, so it makes sense to sign up.
Prigozhin did not come to IK-9, only employees of the Wagner PMC. In this colony, 80 out of 300 prisoners who expressed a desire to participate in the war will be taken away on Monday at 17:00. At the same time, the camp operatives carefully continue to recruit prisoners, citing the fact that now they are called at will, and in a couple of months they will be sent to war forcibly. And now there is a chance to survive, but after that there will be no such chance. They say that the prisoners of the first wave will not be a human shield in this “meat grinder”, and then they will be assigned the role of a “human shield”.
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