street. >> he and two other friends followed this young woman home, stripped her of her boots, nearly strangled her to death, and took her belongings. he was sent off into a penal colony, which is a siberian part of russia, very forested, extreme weather conditions and also extreme hard labor. and at that time he really actually embraced that hard labor. he wanted to better himself and, during that process, he became well read. >> after nearly a decade behind bars, prigozhin was released just as the soviet union was collapsing. >> president gorbachev accepted the inevitability and then signed the death certificate of the soviet empire. >> the state had imploded and the mafia already strong was