2023-08-25 20:47:59
Although the authorities removed the flowers i other objects deposited to remember the recently deceased head of Wagner’s mercenaries, Yevgeny Prigozhin, that did not stop a few citizens from insisting on remembering him in the days after last Wednesday’s accident. And it is that the man “with difficult destiny», as the Russian president himself called it Vladimir Putin it aroused all kinds of feelings among the Russians. For some, he was a hero and a patriot, as advocated by those who mourn his death and commemorate him in the streets. For others, he was the leader of mercenaries known for their efficiency and cruelty.
The most outstanding tribute is that of Sant Petersburg, headquarters of the Wagner company and birthplace of Prigojin himself. Right in the offices where they worked wagnerites is where the like-minded people brought flags, flowers and all kinds of objects to remember who also bore the nickname of Putin’s cook. On more than one occasion the police were in charge of removing the deposited objects, but ordinary citizens insisted on commemorating Wagner’s head. Some of which passed through the site in addition to leaving flowers they also knelt as a sign of respect, while people were also seen taking selfies with the St. Petersburg burning chapel.
This is what the building of the PMC “Wagner” Center in St. Petersburg looks now. pic.twitter.com/f9kPvFZzHW
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Right in the center of Moscow, very close to the Kremlin and Red Square, was the tribute that his supporters wanted to dedicate both to him and to his second in command, Dmitri Utkin. The latter was an experienced military man who had the full confidence of Prigojin. His figure arouses a little more suspicion, since his sympathy for the German Third Reich was well known, which he made clear with neo-Nazi tattoos on his skin. On social networks, these types of tributes sparked all kinds of debates, from criticism that the tribute was not allowed to be maintained to the same, to simultaneously remember them both as “fighters against fascism” while Utkin was rather a sympathizer of this ideology.
Beyond the two big cities, other cities throughout the Eurasian country like Kazan, Wow, Yekaterinburg, among many others, they also wanted to remember the fallen wednesday past in the plane crash with spontaneous tributes in central places of the respective cities, with greater or lesser influx of people. This As of Friday, there is still no official confirmation that one of the 10 bodies found at the plane crash site was Prigozhin himself, although it was confirmed that he was among the passenger list and that there were no survivors in the crash itself.
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