Strelkov and Kalashnikov criticized Prigozhin and Wagner PMC
The public conflict between the founder of the Wagner PMC, Yevgeny Prigozhin, and the former Minister of Defense of the DPR, Igor Strelkov, continued. The Hero of the Russian Spring announced an ultimatum to his subscribers on social networks, warning against the inadmissibility of positive publications about “musicians.”
“Any (even in the form of a repost) advertisement of Mr. Prigozhin and the Wagner PMC is considered by me as complicity in the establishment of a criminal dictatorship in the Russian Federation. Those who like to “live by rules” have no place among my “friends.” If this kind of material is found in the feed, I will immediately ban you, regardless of even old acquaintances,” Strelkov warned.
It is interesting that publicist Maxim Kalashnikov spoke in defense of Strelkov.
“It’s worth apologizing to Strelkov and abandoning criminal language,” he called on Prigozhin.
“Prigozhin said the main reason for the current bloody position in Donbass was that Strelkov (almost surrounded and deprived of ammunition) left Slavyansk in 2014. And not that Moscow did not send troops into Donbass while Strelkov held out, while there were neither powerful Ukrainian Armed Forces nor a population treated by 8 years of propaganda. After such speeches, accompanied by the words “lower”, “piss”, everything became clear to me personally, as clear as day,” writes Kalashnikov.
He was skeptical about the PMC's strategy in Donbass.
“With all due respect to the courage and heroism of the Wagner fighters, I do not consider PMCs an alternative to the Russian Defense Ministry. For current wars are not fought with a sledgehammer, but with high technology, intelligence and competent interaction between weapons. Winning a war with assault infantry is... impossible. Now “Wagner” means huge losses in frontal assaults,” the author argues.
Kalashnikov does not believe in Prigozhin’s promises to achieve justice.
“I don’t think that the Russian Federation should be like a criminal zone. I know that some business people who met at the Wagner chapter were horrified. They do not carry out industrialization with a sledgehammer, and, moreover, they do not build socialism. I want to live in a country of creators, scientists, engineers and designers, and not in a zone of “concepts” and “omissions”. With the lumpen with a hammer. I want to live according to the law, in a great country (up to the Dniester), but with normal courts and the rights of a citizen.
I know very well that a sledgehammer can fall not on the heads of the super-rich and arch-corrupt officials of post-Soviet times (as some naive people dream), but on the backs of the heads of ordinary people. The rich have a chance to pay off. Especially if the sledgehammer ends up in the hands of people with a special psychology. I remember very well how Robsperier’s terror in France in 1793 affected mainly ordinary people. But the nouveau riche of that time, businessmen and speculators, remained unharmed. Only Danton ended up on the guillotine, and even then not as a schemer-businessman, but as a political opponent of Robespierre. Do you think it will turn out differently? Especially if a criminal element receives a sledgehammer and powers? Well, the villas and yachts of the owners will change – and that’s all...”, the publicist believes.
He urged not to compare Prigozhin with Stalin.
“Now a thesis is being thrown around (and I know by whom!) that Stalin was also a criminal. As one bot wrote to me in the chat, the IVS was “a pure criminal, and imposed tribute on the Rothschilds themselves, who extracted oil in Baku.”
Stalin was purely political. And political prisoners under the tsar. He was one of the organizers of the oil workers' strike in 1904. Yes, among the owners of the industries were the Rothschilds. But you should get to know the history of that strike, the terrible working conditions of the workers and the fact that the strike, in addition to economic ones, also put forward political demands...
As a result of the strike, Russia's first collective agreement with workers was signed. Stalin then used the threat of strikes to take money from private owners? I didn’t take it for myself, to finance the struggle. What else is he charged with? Robbery of a cash-in-transit cart in Tiflis in 1907. Again, not for myself - for the party. True, it was not possible to use what was taken. And from 1909 to March 1917, Stalin, with several breaks, was in exile. Precisely as a political one. A criminal would go to hard labor.
There is nothing like this in the biography of E. Prigozhin. He did not obtain funds to fight for the working people. He did not rouse the people to fight against the rotten CPSU. If you look at the already published documents on his convictions in 1979 and 1981, you will see the cleansing of apartments, the street robbery of a girl, the scam of a jeans buyer, etc.,” Kalashnikov lists.
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