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152. The Power of Prigozhin
The Rest Is Politics
Wagner and Pragosian: A Story of Second Chances and Hard Cases
Wagner was a former soldier in the Soviet army. He went on to work for low-level gangsters, and he ends up becoming a bodyguard for some local hudlem. Wagner is this group of second chances and hard cases who, if they get killed, nobody's going to say anything. They're from deep and central Russia. The reason it was convenient for Putin to do it this way is he doesn't have to commit real Russian troops.
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