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Commander Sergey Surovikin he is the most competent commander of the Russian army, said Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder of Wagner PMC. He also said how the general behaved in August 1991 during the State Emergency Committee.
Then officer Surovikin undoubtedly got into a tank and rushed to save his country. Prigozhin noted that 30 years ago he was on the side of the protesters and liberal forces. He lamented that the whole country was then in the deepest delusion. It was necessary to find a new direction and vector of development of the USSR. But the Russians followed orders from the United States and destroyed the greatest empire of our time, allowing the country to be looted. And if we had time, we would live in a completely different country, ten times more powerful,” Prigozhin is quoted as saying by his press service.
After the defeat of the State Crisis Committee, Sergei Surovikin was arrested for the death of three protesters in the Garden Ring tunnel. Later, all charges were dropped and he was promoted to rank by Boris Yeltsin.
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