Thread by @HarladF

Most people in the west will misunderstand and underestimate the significance of this.
This is part of something big.
1/

https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1597578177798627328

This is the worst possible humiliation of #Prigozhin but also an attack against the #Kremlin and the invasion of Ukraine.
This guy is not some random criminal.
He knows exactly what he's doing and doing this without powerful support would be suicide.
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The prison tattoos:
* Epaulettes on the shoulders indicate very high rank in criminal hierarchy.
* The machine gun: denotes a readiness to commit violence
* The double headed eagle: senior-authority, rage against authorities.
* The two crosses: fight against authorities
3/

Disclaimer: I'm not an expert on russian prison tattoos - above reflects what I could find out from some internet research. Please correct me if I got something wrong.
4/ (to be continued)

5/ This is not an isolated video statement. It's a reply and a continuation to a similar video from Grisha "Moskovsky", an ex convict living in exile in an undisclosed location. from user: Icecreamraider on reddit:

6/ The full video is 5 minutes. "Sasha" continues:
"Because you are all garbage. You all went for a fucking “rooster”… for a fucking “faggot”… and for an FSB/KGB [affiliated] Putin… went to kill normal people.

Attacked a normal country."
...

7/ "You want an amnesty? You want an early release? You will get a d*ck in you mouth… in your *ss… you will get hate (toward them)… suffering for your kids and families.

The criminal world hasn’t seen yet what will happen to them. You are all trash. You are all “faggots”.

8/ "Everyone who went with Wagner is a “faggot”."

9/ And Sasha is obviously not afraid of Wagner coming for him:
"And any of you who wants to “meet” me – I will meet with them. Let’s setup a meeting in Turkey (he made a reference to Turkey as a “neutral” territory before)… not a question."

10/ correction: The tattoo colored machine gun is not a tattoo - it's part of the watermark. Sorry about that.

11/ This is "Grisha" mentioned above:

https://twitter.com/igorsushko/status/1597307687011688448

12/ Remember I wrote "Most people in the west will misunderstand .."
To understand russian prison culture (which also have a big influence on russian general culture also in the highest circles), read this 👇

https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1555902149686693888

Another 45 seconds of the video now with subtitles by @wartranslated ( The full video is 5:45):

https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1597648181734825984

I also found an autotranslated video with "Grisha"

https://twitter.com/vidtranslator/status/1590485260407406592

15/ Short term consequences:

1. Further Wagner group recruiting of russian prisoners to the war will become much harder.
2. If morale, infighting and desertions among the "penal brigades" were problems before, those problems will only get worse.
(to be continued)