Prigozhin who was full of self praise and flattery for his underperforming Nazi group has gone silent the last week or two since some videos surfaced on Twitter. If you read the thread there's rumours Prigozhin was getting politically too ambitious and Putin's taking him down a peg or two.
I'll let you all make up your own minds if it's true or not
Links below to a man's account of Prigozhin's life in the Russian penal system. Pun intended
The mobilisation reminds me off a couple of relevant videos on how Stalin was able to enslave a nation and carry out much worse while the population let him. Here Professor Stephen Kotkin talks about his book Stalin - Waiting for Hitler. This is his second volume in a series of three about "the gold standard" of dictators.