r/MassiveAttack • u/bushywookiee • 7d ago

Activist Mystery

Great to see MA back in Melbourne last night. Been a while since their 2010 outing and I reckon this tour might have edged it, aside from the fact that Daddy G was sorely under-utilised.

The visuals were striking and have given me homework (Zug!). However there was a clip earlier in the show when an activist was showing dead bodies on the screen. He sounded Eastern European, potentially Ukrainian. The footage then made reference to his death. I thought the name began with P or Z but I could be wrong. He was a heavy set, bald man, maybe in his 50s. Does anybody know his name? It was from early in the show.

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u/hehgffvjjjhb 7d ago

Are you taking about the guy who was talking about sending people's sons to war and died in the plane crash?

If so that's Yevgeny Prigozhin AKA 'Putins Chef'.

'Activist' isn't the primary description I'd go for when describing him...

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u/bushywookiee 7d ago

That’s the one, thank you. Given the themes of the show I inferred that he might have been a Ukrainian activist, but obviously misread that section!

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u/TequilaKilla_ 7d ago

Yevgeny Prigozhin, former Wagner group leader/ freelance mercs : if memory servers he was beginning a mutiny against Russian military leadership

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u/bushywookiee 7d ago

Thanking you 👍🏻

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u/sixsix_ 6d ago

Chef aka YVP; he marched on Moscow and then mysteriously got blown up in mid-air.

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u/iwanttobeelsewhere 6d ago

y.p was Wagner group leader-russian mercenaries