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Russian president awards bravery medals to conscripted convicts who served 6 months in Ukraine 

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Vladimir Putin has started handing out medals to reward violent convicts who had been recruited from Russian prisons for their ‘courage’ preventing in Ukraine. 

Hayk Gasparyan, a convicted armed robber, was freed from his utmost safety jail to provide in professional-Kremlin forces illegally invading their neighbours in a scheme reminiscent of the 1978 WWII movie Inglorious Bas***ds.

The Armenian MMA fighter, 31, experienced only served a few months of a seven-12 months sentence in a lockup in Ryazan, south-east of Moscow, for armed robbery but he is now formally a totally free male immediately after being pardoned by Putin for completing 6 months of assistance at the entrance.

Gasparyan was also witnessed in a modern video broadcast on Russian condition Television set of Putin meeting and greeting different soldiers at an event in Rostov-on-Don, a town in southern Russia positioned just 50 miles from the Ukrainian border.

The ceremony also appeared to consist of a number of folks who have previously been determined as actors from other Kremlin propaganda video clips. 

Gasparyan is pictured obtaining his Get of Braveness from the Russian president

Putin is pictured meeting fighters in Rostov-On-Don, some of whom are criminals released from prison to go and serve on the frontlines. Gasparyan is circled. Some of the individuals in this image, including the blonde woman standing directly in front of Putin, have been identified as actors who've appeared in several Kremlin propaganda pieces

Putin is pictured assembly fighters in Rostov-On-Don, some of whom are criminals unveiled from prison to go and serve on the frontlines. Gasparyan is circled. Some of the folks in this image, such as the blonde woman standing right in entrance of Putin, have been discovered as actors who’ve appeared in many Kremlin propaganda parts

Gasparyan served with the notorious Wagner team, a band of Russian mercenaries established up by a person of Putin’s cronies which has embarked upon a mass recruitment generate among Russian prisons. 

‘I provide Russia and Wagner,’ he informed Putin, who awarded him an Order of Courage for battlefield bravery.

The armed robber was convicted just one year ago of stealing £3,500 at gunpoint from a male outside the house a Moscow financial institution.

In the coming weeks hundreds of murderers, rapists and robbers are probably to get related pardons from Putin.

Wagner was launched by Putin’s ‘chef’ Yevgeny Prigozhin, himself a former convict who when organised significant Kremlin banquets for the Russian president, in 2014.

Because then Prigozhin has designed a fearsome army to assist Putin’s battling troopers in the battle against Ukraine by scooping up an estimated 40,000 violent prisoners, promising them a whole pardon from their sentences if they can survive six months on the frontline. 

Prigozhin’s utilisation of hardened prisoners to perform significant wartime functions in Ukraine harks again to the 1978 movie Inglorious Bast***ds, 1 of the inspirations behind Quentin Tarantino’s acclaimed 2009 flick Inglorious Basterds. 

Wagner was founded by Putin's 'chef' Yevgeny Prigozhin, himself a former convict who has conducted a mass recruitment drive in Russian prisons to bolster Russia's war effort in Ukraine

Wagner was started by Putin’s ‘chef’ Yevgeny Prigozhin, himself a former convict who has done a mass recruitment drive in Russian prisons to bolster Russia’s war effort in Ukraine

Putin's chef Yevgeny Prigozhin is filmed recruiting inmates in one of Russian colonies in October 2022

Putin’s chef Yevgeny Prigozhin is filmed recruiting inmates in one of Russian colonies in Oct 2022

In the film, a band of degenerate American soldiers who are court docket-martialed for committing a sequence of crimes which includes robbery, mutiny and murder, go on to launch a daring mission to steal some of Germany’s most cherished army components – a V2 rocket – and return it to Allied powers.

The idea of releasing hardened criminals from their cells to go to war is by no means novel. 

In the course of the Next Planet War, Hitler’s feared paramilitary group, the SS, designed a division built up pretty much exclusively of violent convicts, mental clients and disgraced troopers from other models.

The 36th Waffen Grenadier Division – improved identified basically as the Dirlewanger Brigade – ranks among the the worst of an now deplorable bunch of models that constituted the SS. 

The Dirlewanger brigade was fashioned in 1940 and named immediately after its commanding officer, Oskar Dirlewanger, who fought in WWI and by all accounts was a drug-addicted sex offender with a penchant for violence and brutality who bounced in and out of prison.

Nazi Lieutenant Common Gottlob Berger – a close comrade of Holocaust architect Heinrich Himmler – managed to get him out of jail and immediately after Dirlewanger amazed by fighting on the side of General Francisco Franco in the Spanish civil war, he was welcomed again into the Nazi fold and handed an SS device to command as a reward.

Nazi troops thought to be members of the Dirlewanger brigade are pictured in Poland in 1944 en route to quell the Warsaw uprising

Nazi troops believed to be associates of the Dirlewanger brigade are pictured in Poland in 1944 en route to quell the Warsaw rebellion

Yevgeny Prigozhin, a close Putin ally and chief financier of the Wagner Group

Oskar Dirlewanger, a child rapist and leader of the SS-Sturmbrigade Dirlewanger

The mercenaries of Yevgeny Prigozhin (remaining), a shut Putin ally and financier of the Wagner Group, have dedicated heinous war crimes on populations on several continents. Their procedures bare a striking similarity to all those of the Dirlewanger brigade, an notorious SS unit commanded by Oskar Dirlewanger (appropriate)

At its inception, Dirlewanger’s brigade was absolutely nothing more than a little rag-tag team of criminals – largely poachers renowned for their looking expertise – who had been deployed largely to assist spherical up Jews and root out resistance fighters.

Several SS commanders strongly disliked the convicted rapist and his team of degenerates, but they proved effective in their function and as the war raged on and the demand for manpower improved, Dirlewanger was supplied carte blanche to increase his ranks.

Everyday living expectancy in the brigade was not significant. They ended up afforded minor equipment, ended up despatched into very hostile situations, and it was widespread for fellow ‘wangers to get rid of each individual other about minimal disagreements.

Nonetheless, more than the study course of the war the brigade grew from a group of a handful of dozen poachers to a countless numbers-sturdy battalion comprised of savages scraped from the bottom of the barrel.

As their reputation for brutality grew, the brigade switched from pursuing Jews and manning focus camps and reworked into a unit of pure exterminators. 

They had been sent into occupied nations to quell civilian uprisings and terrorise community populations by massacring enormous quantities of men and women in the most savage and brutal ways conceivable. 

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