
People at the spontaneous memorial near the "PMC Wagner Center" in St. Petersburg, August 24, 2023. Photo: EPA-EFE / Anton Matrosov
Exactly two months after the rebellion of Yevgeny Prigozhin, his private plane crashed in the Tver region. As far as you can judge on the basis of available information, not only Prigozhin himself, but also the leadership of the Wagner PMC, including the famous war criminal Dmitry Utkin, died in the plane crash.
At the time of the death of Prigozhin, his alter ego Vladimir Putin awarded the war participants against Ukraine in connection with the "80th anniversary of the Victory in the Battle of Kursk." The celebrations took place in the giant hall, decorated in the style of the necropolitan Orthodoxy, characteristic of the official church of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, in black and red colors - symbols of death and blood.

Prigozhin brought this new cult of death to the altar. Tearing the heart of the rebel, Putin must take his strength to himself.
Russian officials, of course, are investigating all versions of Prigozhinsky Embraer Legacy 600 disasters, including “pilot error and technical problems on board”. However, in reality, what happened can rather be classified as execution. Not named Putin by the name of the traitor, who “stuck the knife in the back to his participants” and then received guarantees of security from the Minsk dictator Alexander Lukashenko, probably liquidated by those who were recently been his employers.
Disposal is the daily reality of those who are ready to provide dirty services. The same fate has already overtook the “heroes of the Donbass”, such as Zakharchenko and Arsen Pavlov (Motorola), which Prigozhin was well aware of. The June attempt of the rebellion, perhaps, was connected precisely with the desire of Prigozhin to extend his life, so as not to be in the cemetery of the heroes immediately after the end of the battle for Bakhmut, when his owners were no longer needed. The mercenary eventually managed to bargain for two months of life, and the dish was served by Vladimir Putin cold.
Prigozhin received the denouement that he prepared for the rest. Russia, prepared in conjunction, is the space of absolute violence and lawlessness, where “real men with sledgehammers” kill their enemies in order to achieve the so-called geopolitical goals, that is, money and power. So, on the one hand, Prigozhin killed on his own symbolic sledgehammer.
And on the other hand, the death of Prigozhin, organized according to his rules, can be considered the final stage in the replacement of state order and bureaucracy in the Russian Federation ultranasilia.
After the execution of Prigozhin, the sledgehammer remained in Putin's hands.
Thus, all loyal Vladimir Putin, but doubting that the “special military operation” must be conducted endlessly, regardless of its price, and, if necessary, until the complete self -destruction of the Russian people, an unambiguous message was sent. The war will be waged exactly as it was started. It will be precisely those people who entrusted Putin who entrusted their main brainchild, and they will be taken away on the principle of loyalty. The doubt about what is happening for an ordinary person will be punishable by the “period for fakes”, and the aircraft will fall from the disloyal rich.
As you know, Putin really did not like to punish his close associates. Probably, in his own eyes, this approach shows his difference from Stalin. Stalinism for the native of the KGB is unacceptable precisely because it was built on the methodical destruction of generations of its own agents. Prigogine execution in this context can be understood as the abolition of this taboo for reprisals for the suspicion of “their own”. The propaganda telegram channels started talking about the beginning of the “purges”, which are absolutely necessary when “the very existence of Russia is put on the map” (we add: we know who put it). On the other hand, Prigozhin never entered the close elite, and therefore took up the most crazy projects. And, in fact, I was blown up by the fact that now he was an elite, and he could have demanded from Putin to stand in conflict from the Ministry of Defense and Shoigu, but something went wrong.
Be that as it may, those who used to be called "Russian elites", ahead of the time. They are required - and they provide - complete humility and even servility regarding the most crazy, incompetent and suicidal decisions of Putin.
Rich and influential people in Russia should no longer just be loyal war, but completely agree with how, until what moment and what management decisions this war is organized.
In other words, the “Russian elites” watching Prigozhin’s fall must agree that they can not only be made by accomplices of crimes, but also put them into expense - in the flame of a nuclear strike or as a result of new palace intrigues.
The servility of the bureaucracy, special services, large businesses, and cultural representatives reaches an unprecedented, Byzantine scope at this point. Each person, loyal to the war in the Russian Federation, must declare himself as dust under the feet of one great historical figure. Otherwise, it can happen as Prigozhin - and for whom there is no “beginner”, he will receive a lifelong conclusion, and if this does not work, the planes will begin to fall from the sky by themselves. Now it is already “not too harsh even for the Kremlin” - now the Kremlin works.
The “Russian elites”, frozen in the pose “what to deign”, simultaneously busy searching for spare airfields - how much the angle of view allows. Places on the planet where you can hide families and assets to give them a chance to survive during the macabar dance of Vladimir Putin with history.
For Prigozhin, the spare airfield was no longer found.