The convicted arms dealer also complained about the food he was given, saying that it's 'not really even food, based on Nazi practices.'
In his first public interview since his release, Viktor Bout, the Russian arms dealer nicknamed"the Merchant of Death," told state television about his time behind bars and said the U.S. prison system was inspired by Germany's Nazis.
He was sentenced in April 2012 after being convicted of conspiring to kill U.S. citizens and officials, selling millions of dollars of weapons to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia , and aiding a terrorist organization.to Russia's RT television network and was interviewed by Russian national Maria Butina, who spent 18 months behind bars in the U.S. for conspiring to act as a clandestine foreign agent in this country.
Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout is seen behind bars at a criminal court in Bangkok on October 10, 2008. In his first interview since his release from imprisonment in the United States, he said the U.S. prison system was inspired by the Nazis."You spent quite a long time in solitary confinement. How did you do it, what helped you get through it?" she asked.
"Who created the U.S. prison system? The Nazis. They were moved to the U.S. in Operation Paperclip. After their experiments, they wrote that this is how you break people and get what you want," he said.is the name given by the U.S. and its allies to a secret mission in 1944. Its purpose was to locate and preserve German weapons and involved the recruitment of top Nazi scientists, doctors and engineers by the U.S., which brought these individuals into the country.
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