Death Is Our Business: Inside the Wagner Group | John Lechner | Ep. 331
The Team House
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🗓️ 8 March 2025
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Get John's book "Death Is Our Business" about the Wagner group here:
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| 0:00.0 | And Progoshan, all of a sudden is, you know, in the limelight. |
| 0:06.4 | He officially is, you know, the founder of Wagner. |
| 0:11.1 | He's in Putin's good graces. |
| 0:14.8 | And he starts promising ever bigger things. |
| 0:18.0 | He eventually promises Bachmut that he's going to take Bachmute. And the MOD, too, |
| 0:26.5 | is looking to get as many guys as they can now for the front. And so they start leaning on |
| 0:31.6 | Wagner as this kind of brand of, you know, cool guys in the Russian context of, you know, to bring in men to recruit. |
| 0:42.1 | So the billboards are going up across Russia, join PMC Wagner. |
| 0:47.6 | So he's recruiting new volunteers. |
| 0:51.5 | And then he gets access to Russia's prison population. The Project K. Project K. |
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