Russia's leader pledged to take "decisive actions" to halt what he says is a treasonous, armed rebellion by the head of Wagner, a rival fighting force in Ukraine.
Prigozhin was born in the former Soviet Union and served ten years in prison when he was younger. After he was freed from jail, he ran a hot dog stand before becoming the owner of several fancy restaurants in Saint Petersburg. His restaurants brought Prigozhin into close contact with Putin.
I feel like we missed a few steps on the way there, but it’s still an interesting origin story.
Born to a poor ethnic Georgian family in the town of Gori […], Stalin joined the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party […] and raised funds for Vladimir Lenin’s Bolshevik faction via robberies, kidnappings and protection rackets.
Local thugs/mafia-leaders raising to power in Russia/USSR is not a new thing.
I feel like we missed a few steps on the way there, but it’s still an interesting origin story.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin
Local thugs/mafia-leaders raising to power in Russia/USSR is not a new thing.
Yeah, Western leaders are saints
Maybe. But we were talking about Stalin here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
What you call ‘whataboutism’ we call ‘double standards’ or ‘hypocrisy’