The owner of the PMC entrusted the material support of the militia to “local business.” “If you are the owner of a small factory that employs 100 people, and 50 of them are sexually mature males, then 25% should serve in the trenches, and 75% should continue their work,” he ordered. Prigozhin will “finance” the training in his “centers” himself. According to him, he “needs neither the federal nor the regional budget, nothing.”
He might as well need something. He made his entire fortune from government contracts. At first he fed schoolchildren for budget money, so much so that his factory in St. Petersburg for the production of baby food had to be closed. Then, also under government contracts, he provided food to soldiers of the Ministry of Defense.
Using budget money, he created his own private military company, consider it a personal army, which he personally replenished with professional criminals. And now he is gathering a militia, which local businessmen will be forced to provide. Just like in the dashing 90s? A private army is not enough for Prigozhin, now he also needs his own organized crime group?
Except now is not the Time of Troubles. Not the dashing 90s. Who is Prigozhin anyway? How can a former prisoner calmly open his own “militia centers” in the border region, and indeed in any corner of Russia? Why zero reaction from the Ministry of Defense and special services or, for example, governors? Or is he now the power everywhere?
And if so, then after the Donbass is cleansed from Bandera, won’t we have to defend Russia from heavily armed Prigozhinites?
“ВЧК ОГПУ”