"What are you doing? They died for Russia, and you are razing their graves to the ground. You are rolling over them," he said in a video shot at the time.
Graeme Wood: The mercenary always loses
The hypocrisy and the indifference of many Russians were astonishing: President Vladimir Putin first sold Prigozhin's paramilitary fighters to the country as "heroes." Then he made them disappear, their graves paved over and crosses knocked down, forgotten even by the earth.
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