Alexander Shestun told how in the colony prisoners were recruited for war personally by Yevgeny Prigozhin. The story coincides with what the VChK-OGPU source previously reported.
Shestun:
According to eyewitnesses, on September 7, repeat offenders from the maximum security IK-3 Tovarkovo, Kaluga region, were lined up on the parade ground immediately after the leadership of the Wagner PMC landed in a helicopter.
According to the description of the same eyewitnesses from Tovarkovo, Prigozhin spoke from the podium, agitating to sign up as volunteers for Donbass.
The sleeves were rolled up, revealing a tattoo with prison symbols.
The highest awards of the Russian Federation glittered on Prigozhin’s chest. The speaker did not hide his past, mixing ordinary words with criminal slang.
Having completed interviews and a polygraph test, a little more than a hundred applicants were selected from those who wanted to atone for their guilt on the battlefields. There was no contract.
They were verbally promised 100,000 rubles a month and release after six months of service. Even more volunteers were recruited to IK-4 maximum security prison “Medyn”.
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VChK-OGPU
A source told the Cheka-OGPU about the recruitment of prisoners for PMCs in a maximum security colony in one of the border regions.
“We were told about the visit of the so-called “musicians” day after day. The duty shift was not allowed out of the zone, the person in charge took over outside the schedule…
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