Viktor Bout who was exchanged for Brittney Griner is going into Russian politics – Says US prison system was created by the Nazis

Published December 16, 2022 | By NewsJive.com

Viktor Bout who was exchanged in a prisoner swap between the US and Russia, involving basketball player Brittney Griner, is going into Russian politics. Bout has now become a member of the late Vladimir Zhirinovsky’s right-wing party LDPR.

The Russian businessman, who is known in the US as an arms dealer called “the Merchant of Death”, who was back in 2012 sentenced in the US to 25 years in prison, on charges of conspiring to sell weapons to a US-designated foreign terrorist group, became officially on Monday a member of the right-wing Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR), started by the controversial politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky who died earlier this year due to complications of the Covid-19 virus.

Bout was personally handed his membership card by the party’s current newly elected leader during an anniversary. Bout said that his decision to join the party was driven by the fact that he sympathizes with the LDPR and believes it to be a powerful party that is close to the people.

Earlier last week, Bout was interviewed on RT by Maria Butina, who back in 2018 also spent some time in a US prison, on charges of espionage before she was released. Bout was asked about his time in the US prison and how he experinced it to be. Bout claimed that the US prison system was created after influences from the Nazis, and that he was forced to spend 3 years in a solitary confinement cell.

“Who created the prison system in the US? The Nazis”, said Bout. Who went on describing the cells as small and dark with a “poisonous light of fluorescent lamps, with sandblasted windows so that you can not see anything”.

“It’s not just deprivation that you can’t see anything. You know, this color they paint in, ‘white night’ in Russian, and this gray one – and everything in this is specially faded”, said Bout and went on:

“Yes, they won’t turn off the light for you, or they won’t bring you food for the whole day, because then he comes and opens it … because only the lieutenant has the key. Even the guard can’t open it and give you food. And the lieutenant is busy, you sit all day without food, and then in the evening he brings you three, says: ‘Sorry’ – and puts it in. And it’s okay if it was food … This is just again from the experience of the Nazis, everything is specially thought out to the smallest detail, there are no accidents”, said Bout.

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