"If Ramzan Kadyrov killed everyone who criticized him," he said, "you could fill a cemetery".
"In the 30s and 40s we knocked off millions of people and filled countless cemeteries," he declared.
In one recorded conversation, Gondola tells another mobster that Denaro, 53 – who once reportedly boasted he could "fill a cemetery" with his victims – was losing control over the latest generation of criminals, who "disappear without saying anything".
For four millennia, and well into the 1950s, medical practice had been governed by expert opinion, and treatments were at best placebos, pharmacologically inert substances, or at worst filled the cemeteries.
Do the math and you quickly realize more of our soldiers have killed themselves after coming home than were killed by any enemy overseas; a tragedy that won't stop filling veteran cemeteries until this generation of veterans, of which I am one, dies off.
Today, the man who famously claimed "I filled a cemetery all by myself".
The stretch of fill where the cemetery waste was dumped cannot be seen from the street, and is further cloaked by a curtain of tall weeds.
Though all options appear to have been exhausted, peace remains our single common hope; violence and war have filled too many cemeteries on both sides.
Other protesters turned beaches into symbolic cemeteries filled with crosses in memoriam to the victims of the clashes.
For anyone who has wandered, hushed and pensive, through the seemingly endless cemeteries filled with Americans killed in France or Belgium in the dying gasp of World War II, the toll inflicted by gun violence in America is difficult to grasp.
