A former employee of Prigozhin spoke about the ideology of fear of the head of the PMC

The first deputy of the Corporation for the Development of Donbass, the former head of the analytical service of Yevgeny Prigozhin, Vyacheslav Tarasov, turned to the founder of the Wagner PMC, saying that he supports the ideology of war communism, and it is almost impossible to quit a military company.

Tarasov stated this in a video message, which is at the disposal of Vedomosti. In a conversation with Vedomosti, he also said that he published the video in the recently created Telegram channel “Prigozhin’s Analytics”.

Tarasov said that he worked as the head of Prigozhin’s analytical service in St. Petersburg from 2020 to 2022, and after his dismissal, he is in Donetsk.

“Today the day has come when for the first time it is necessary for me, it is vitally necessary to speak publicly about my work with Evgeny Viktorovich. Evgeniy Viktorovich, during the two years of close communication with you, I learned both your principles of life and your inner ideology. <...> This is the truth that only the people who worked under you know. And you have one ideology – fear, fear and deceit. Your only sincere desire is power, undivided and absolute. Each of us who worked for you knows that for any wrongdoing, for any objection not expressed in time, you can go to the “teacher”: this is the executioner who [избивает] you in the basement and sends you a photo, and you decide whether to add or enough. It is impossible to quit you, this is serfdom, where only you decide whether a person can leave you and on what conditions. Fear and only fear – is this patriotism you carry to us on your bayonets? Your ideal is war communism, we have discussed this with you more than once. And what excites you most about it is executions, of course, for the good of the motherland. <...> You are trying to bleed Russia in your pride <...>“, he said in the video.

Tarasov also explained that, speaking of cases of “executions”, he did not mean murders in the ranks of PMCs. According to him, we are talking about Wagner strikes on Defense Ministry helicopters. It was reported that PMC fighters tried to shoot down a Ka-52 helicopter of the Russian Aerospace Forces in the sky over Voronezh, the missile was managed to be diverted with the help of heat traps.

“I know that Prigozhin raised an armed rebellion. Three helicopters were shot down. On what basis they took up arms against their brothers, I don’t know,” Tarasov said in a conversation with Vedomosti.