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Alexei Navalny Sacrificed Himself to Show Russia That Putin Is a Monster

Navalny’s friends knew he was willing to become a martyr if that’s what it took to stand up to Putin.

Alexei Navalny’s long struggle against President Putin began with a humorous blog and culminated in repeated demonstrations of his willingness to risk his own life. According to the Russian authorities on Friday, he has now died in prison.

Russia’s leading opposition voice has been silenced.

Other dissident figures went into exile or died in mysterious circumstances over the past decade, leaving Navalny as the last national figure with a dedicated following.

Though he had been arrested many times before, Navalny’s defining moment in the eyes of many Russians came after the attempt to assassinate him with Novichok. He recuperated in the sanctuary of a German hospital but chose to defy Putin and return to Russia in January 2021, knowing full well he would end up in prison.

Arcity ,
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Why the fuck are we celebrating this fascist?

CultHero ,

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    Arcity ,
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    The fuck makes you think i’m supporting russia?

    Arcity ,
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    Should I feel bad for Wagner because they opposed Putin?

    Arcity ,
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    Your name suits you, brain dead cultist

    CultHero ,

    I hope you’re dead.

    Arcity ,
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    Nah, sorry man. You must be severely mentally challenged to respond to a months old comment that no longer exists. Hope you get well soon fascist.

    uis ,

    Hey!

    He is not russian sock puppet. I’m against such definition. He is Putin’s sock puppet.

    Iceman ,

    Him being the opposition was apparently good enough. Never mind that he was a Russian nationalist that definitely supports the annexation of Ukraine and the ethnic cleansing of Caucasians. A real meat old boss, same as old boss situation.

    Arcity ,
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    Finally a sane take. The enemy of your enemy is not your friend. I hate how western media is whitewashing the likes of Kissinger and Navalny.

    uis ,

    Under what rock did you live for last 10 years? This doesn’t look like support.

    Arcity ,
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    "The oppositionist added that if Crimea is annexed, the Russian economy will weaken, and this, in turn, may lead to the desire of some subjects of the Federation to secede from the country. " - your source Ah yes, what a sweetheart. He doesn’t think it is good to annex Crimea. Yet he wants to continue using the Black Sea and I assume the military bases in Crimea and use it to keep Ukraine out of NATO. So same goal as Putin, just thinks annexing was a mistake strategically not morally.

    rottingleaf ,

    Yet he wants to continue using the Black Sea and I assume the military bases in Crimea

    Well, that was the situation after the dissolution of USSR. Makes sense preserving it.

    and use it to keep Ukraine out of NATO

    Where did you get that?

    In Russian-speaking Web the only relatively recent quote by him people accusing him can find is “Crimea is not a sandwich to be given or taken”. Especially Ukrainians clutch to that to the end.

    Well, see, Crimea is really not a sandwich, it’s a piece of land inhabited by people, and yes, a real referendum is more important than Ukrainian laws.

    I was disgusted by that “referendum” because it was fake, while many Ukrainians on the Web because they are against referendums they don’t like. Well, too bad.

    Arcity ,
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    I love how everyone is dogpilling without giving any arguments.

    uis ,

    Explain your point

    Arcity ,
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    I must have dreamt up the neo-nazi, 2006 Russian march and the far-right, National Russian Liberation Movement.

    rottingleaf ,

    No, you haven’t. Nobody cares what was in 2006.

    Arcity ,
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    Go ahead and gaslight me that he is actually progressive.

    CultHero ,

    Fuck your mom amerikkkan cunt.

    Arcity ,
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    I’m not american imbecile

    mellowheat , (edited )

    If I may quote aljazeera.com/…/obit-navalny-putins-archenemy-and…

    Beginning in the late 2000s, Navalny used racial slurs when describing ethnic Georgians, called for the deportation of Muslim migrant workers and delivered speeches at Russian Marches, annual rallies of far-right nationalists, white supremacists and neo-Nazis.

    “It was a long time ago,” Alexander Verkhovsky, head of the Moscow-based Sova hate crimes monitor, told Al Jazeera in 2021, describing Navalny as “a different man now”.

    www.rightsinrussia.org/aleksandr-verkhovsky/ doesn’t seem like a pro-fascist (although I wouldn’t be surprised if somebody made such a story up, now that he has defended Navalny), so I’m supposing his opinion in this is good enough. Calling Navalny a fascist at this point seems like a tankie talking point specifically designed to denounce the message he was putting out in his last years.

    “We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.” – Aristotle

    Arcity ,
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    So your argument is that he was fascist but not anymore?

    Iceman ,

    Call me a cynic, but that just screams “I am in Russian prison, my hopes for a Russian uprising uprising didn’t happen and my only hope is appeasing the west”. No world leaders have made such drastic changes in ideology over merely a decade.

    mellowheat ,

    I guess that’s possible, but also possible that your own country poisoning you and then imprisoning you can do wonders for your nationalistic tendencies.

    cosmicrookie ,
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    Everybody know that Putin is a monster, except for the Russians. They need a revolution!

    ccunix ,

    That didn’t end well last time though

    Phegan ,

    I mean, they deposed a monarch, so that’s good.

    uis ,

    It sadly did end. Now another fucking imperialist is in charge.

    mellowheat ,

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_empire

    At its peak, their empire was roughly the same size as the British Empire, 35 million square kilometers. Slightly more than half of it was just Russia, though, of course, which makes this a bit of an orange vs apples thing. But USSR definitely had an empire-like thing going on.

    rottingleaf ,

    But USSR definitely had an empire-like thing going on.

    … important parts of which were (declared and even attempted) meritocracy, scientific and social progress, and a promise (which seemed realistic enough) for the future of the whole world.

    This doesn’t have anything in common with any big state’s ideology now.

    mellowheat ,

    I suppose originally it was, and I do think original goals are important to consider.

    Stalin brought an early end to many progressive dreams, though, and it doesn’t seem like Soviet Union ever really recovered from his regressive regime.

    rottingleaf ,

    I meant 60s and 70s.

    The point is that even aggressive attitudes of Soviet leadership were constructed very differently.

    Politburo really made collective decisions.

    The Communist party and the ministries and local councils and all that could function in obscure, weird and undocumented ways, but they did generally follow laws and rules.

    I mean … it really was an empire. Very inefficient and it eventually failed, but still.

    Today’s Russia is just an entity of a lower order.

    mellowheat ,

    Today’s Russia is just an entity of a lower order.

    Indeed it is, but in many ways it’s just a legacy (even if a deeply warped one) of the earlier. Putin was a KGB man, and repeatedly mentions how he thinks the fall of USSR was one of the greatest geopolitical tragedies.

    rottingleaf ,

    Anything is a legacy of what was before. I’m just saying that it’s not a rebuilt and changed USSR or even its part, it’s something new built from the same bricks.

    Putin was a KGB man,

    Not of the “expected to be anywhere near leadership by intelligence” kind from what I’ve read.

    and repeatedly mentions how he thinks the fall of USSR was one of the greatest geopolitical tragedies.

    He repeatedly mentions anything he thinks will make him popular. Loved a few antifascist, centrist and legalist lines too.

    BTW, he himself apparently still thinks his power is somehow dependent on popularity, while in fact it’s dependent on apathy only at this point.

    He worries about what people will think, however weird that may sound.

    rambling_lunatic , (edited )

    Man, Lenin set fire to a good chunk of his own dreams during the Civil War.

    The betrayal of the SRs and Makhnovists, the butchering of Kronstadt, the subjugation of local soviets and trade unions to centralized top-down rulership, and nationalization of previously independent cooperatives all helped bring down the dreams of equality and liberty. Lenin created all of the infrastructure that Stalin then used to horrifying ends. IMO this is an inevitable outcome of vanguardism and a “dictatorship of the proletariat”, but that is a topic for another day.

    Some of the things mentioned above did manage to survive post-Stalin. There was immense scientific progress in the USSR and the education was the best in the world. Everyone got food, though it was poor-quality and standing in line for it was universal (again, post-Stalin).

    mellowheat ,

    Homelessness wasn’t a thing.

    Homelessness was illegal in Soviet Union. USA has plenty of problems that are objectively worse in this area, but I’m not sure if just declaring it illegal and sending vagrants to labor camps is a very good solution either.

    rambling_lunatic ,

    Point taken. I will revise my original post. You’re right, man. Further reading supports your view. It seems that they just weren’t very visible.

    buddascrayon ,

    They know. They just don’t care because he’s “their” monster. Nothing will change in the wake of Nelvany’s death.

    This is a harsh lesson in allowing the cult of personality into a democratic election. Everyone should have learned from Hitler’s example but memories are apparently short lived. Now we have people like Netanyahu, Putin, and Trump and a world war is inevitable.

    rottingleaf ,

    “They” do not hold any particular position. That would be because “they” hold a multitude of positions, at its extreme as many as there are people in the particular society we refer to as “they”.

    And lose the drama, because:

    1. There are always such people.
    2. Putin became president in 1999 and the last arguably democratic election in Russia was in 1996.
    3. About Hitler - I think somebody skipped their history and doesn’t know that European states didn’t immediately cease to be colonialist just cause WWII ended and the new reality ensued. And Europeans would behave pretty hitleresque in colonies, think of French in Algeria or maybe Indochina.
    4. It’s spelled Navalny.
    maness300 ,

    Russians know it to, they just can’t do anything about it.

    PoliticallyIncorrect ,
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    A self-made martyr?

    RememberTheApollo_ ,

    If Russia is like the US with trump, then there’s the active population who are supporting Putin, because even if he’s a bastard, at least he hurts the right people. Then there’s an apathetic horde, who don’t care or are too beaten down to do anything. Then there’s the group that know what’s up and wants change.

    The question is if Navalny’s death meant anything. The people who care are already at a disadvantage because of the authoritarian State, the supporters aren’t going to change, and the apathetic don’t have time to care. IMO he would have been better off, alive, outside of Russia and criticizing Putin.

    scemmy ,

    What you said could be true of any event, but reality is, each of these events influence apathetic people to either become supporters of the regime or anti-establishment.

    At least, that’s my theory. If not, there would never have been any progress in human society, if things are as static as you theorized.

    Jax ,

    I think progress comes from young people, not apathetic people who have had changes of heart.

    Apathetic parents lead to angry kids, angry kids look for answers. Some of them will find the right ones.

    cosmicrookie ,
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    Apathy is not age related; it is a state of mind. You have very energetic grown ups, and very apathetic youth and visa versa.

    RememberTheApollo_ ,

    I don’t imply society is in a permanent static state, my question is if Navalny’s demise would effect any meaningful change to the status quo.

    cosmicrookie ,
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    I think the point is, that he might have been able to influence more, if he was alive, and maybe even free, outside of Russia

    rambling_lunatic ,

    Russia is not like the US under Donald John. There are indeed rabid supporters of Putin and Russian imperialism (“vatniks”), but the regime functions regardless of popular support.

    You are right about what groups of people exist. You are, however, completely mistaken about their importance if you compare Russia to the US under Trump.

    My understanding, which is based in large part on my personal experience and observation of the size of protests (statistics suck when dictatorships are involved), is that the vast majority of Russians dislike Putin, but they believe that there is nothing that can be done at the moment.

    Doomerism is very strong in Russia. Our prevailing mentality is to suck it up and keep going. It pains me to say this, but in the current conditions of Russia, the doomers have a point.

    snownyte ,
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    The sacrifice was in vain, we know Putin is a shithead.

    rikudou ,

    Which “we” are you talking about? Because a lot of Russians vote for him (and I don’t mean just the fake votes, but the real ones as well).

    Deceptichum ,
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    And did he change their opinion?

    DoucheBagMcSwag ,

    Internally? Potentially…at the ballot box? Nope

    asteriskeverything ,

    The Other Mr. President - by This American Life did a really great episode interviewing Russians on their thoughts and feelings on Putin.

    dangblingus ,

    There’s only one name on the ballot.

    Poem_for_your_sprog ,

    Votes don’t matter in Russia

    Gullible ,

    They matter. You vote Putin or you vote Putin but the government notes your impropriety. Voting is a purity test.

    Mistic , (edited )

    They may not matter in a sense that you can’t elect anybody but Putin.

    But they do matter in a sense of showing the incumbent they aren’t stable.

    After successful re-election of incumbent, they fall into a sense of euphoria. This leads to creation of some absolutely horrific and unjust laws.

    However, when the re-election is deemed unsuccessful (say 55% voted for “the right candidate”, but the second place got scary high 30-35%), they become timid.

    That’s how informational autocracies work. And that’s why elections there absolutely do matter, as they directly affect quality of life. It’s the safest and loudest way of showing the government your middle finger.

    some_designer_dude ,

    The Russian ballot box is a paper shredder that increments “Putin” by 1.

    rambling_lunatic ,
    1. You are a Westerner.
    2. You live after the beginning of the Ukrainian War.

    In Russia, for the longest time, dislike of the regime was primarily limited to the youth. The average person had a vague understanding that there was a lot of corruption. However, they did not understand just how deep it went. The average person understood that there was some enrichment going on, but they thought it was mostly local and small-scale. People seldom had personal experience with the repression of dissidents, nor did they know much about the opposition movement.

    Navalni opened people’s eyes. He revealed the palaces of the deputies, ministers, and Vladimir Vladimirovich himself. He revealed how corruption was horrendous on every level of government. He revealed the absurdly close ties between the oligarchs and government. He made the repression visible too, thought this was a much more minor part of his project.

    On the back of all of his investigations, he built a mass movement. Individual, fractured discontent just leads to depressed people who believe themselves to be isolated, the sole sane man in a sea of nutcases. He united people. He organized demonstrations. He made discontent public and visible, thus opening the eyes of even more people.

    The modern opposition movement would not exist were it not for Navalni.

    That being said, there were two main issues with Navalni’s work. First, he wasted a lot of energy telling people to vote, and came up with the Smart Voting scheme to vote out URers, even though he himself acknowledged the lack of fairness in the elections. This was a colossal waste of time, energy, and resources. It changed nothing. You cannot vote out a dictatorship.

    Second, he was a nationalist, especially early on. Later on he became more of a typical liberal, but his years as the sort of guy to yell “Russia is for Russians” have been harmful to the opposition.

    Gbagginsthe3rd ,

    I always questioned why he went back to Russia. I thought he could have done so much more outside of a Russian prison. Intentionally in the middle of nowhere, cut off from his supporters and fellow Russians

    But he loved his country and held steadfast in his principles. He is a greater man than many. Could you trust yourself on how you would act when tested the way he was.

    RootBeerGuy ,
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    There have been examples of the past where martyrs did change the direction of history. Maybe he hoped it would be similar and I guess we are at the find out stage.

    agitatedpotato ,

    Even Lenin stayed out of Russia when the government set it sights on him and waited for a more oportune time to come back. Here’s to hoping Martyrdom will change things, but Russians are very very used to things getting worse and just taking it on the chin.

    ghostdoggtv ,

    Fucking hell, when you put it that way…

    Impound4017 ,

    Happy endings are banned in Slavic history

    Daft_ish ,

    Yesterday it was Alexei standing up to tyranny. Tomorrow, maybe some else. If we’re lucky, more and more.

    MrFunnyMoustache ,

    I thought the same, couldn’t figure out why he returned to Russia when he could do more when he was free. Still, his courage is admirable, I wouldn’t have been able to steel my nerves to do what’s right in the face of these dangers.

    Deceptichum ,
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    Going back to be locked up, abused, and die isn’t exactly “right”.

    What’s better is to live another day to continue fighting.

    MrFunnyMoustache ,

    I meant in general when opposing powerful bad people, like had he stayed in Germany and continued fighting. I wouldn’t have been able to steel myself to become someone who is a direct enemy of someone who clearly has the power and intent to assassinate his opponents.

    Technofrood ,

    I mean I doubt he would have been safe even if he didn’t go back. Maybe a little bit, but how long before he gets polonium tea, or nerve agented?

    s0ckpuppet ,

    They already had tried to get him with Novichock and just barely didn't kill him. I'm sure they'd have tried again.

    captainlezbian ,

    He seems like a true patriot in a land of nationalists

    rambling_lunatic ,

    He was, himself, a nationalist. Or at least he was in the distant past. He seemed to have distanced himself from that.

    Still, he lived by his principles. He wasn’t a robber or a hypocrite. He genuinely cared about Russia. He loved his nation. I cannot say the same for the party of crooks and thieves.

    SkyezOpen ,

    Could you trust yourself on how you would act when tested the way he was.

    Absolutely. I trust that I would run away like a little bitch. Dude had balls of steel and I truly hope he managed to show the Russian population what a tyrant putin is.

    FRCLYE ,

    Absolutely, most people that think they’d take the high road and do the right thing in this situation are not being honest with themselves. As much as I’d love to believe that I would sacrifice everything to fight tiranny, I just know that when the time comes I would choose the easy way out and espace somwhere for a better life.

    uis ,

    I truly hope he managed to show the Russian population what a tyrant putin is.

    He did. And I recoomend you to watch it. Dude investigated his own poisoning.

    KevonLooney ,

    Be careful who you praise:

    Navalny took part in the Russian March, an annual demonstration in Moscow that draws ultranationalists, including some who adopt swastika-like symbols. In 2008, Navalny, like an apparent majority of Russians, supported Russian aggression in Georgia. In 2013, he made illegal immigration from Central Asia a central theme of his campaign for mayor of Moscow. In 2014, after Russia occupied Crimea, he said that, while he opposed the invasion, he did not think that Crimea could be just “handed back” by a post-Putin Russian government.

    newyorker.com/…/the-evolution-of-alexey-navalnys-…

    ThirdWorldOrder ,

    Better than Putin. Navalny was at least a step in the right direction, despite his many flaws.

    KevonLooney ,

    Better in the sense that there were Nazis less crazy than Hitler? Dude supported the invasion and annexation of part of Georgia, and said Russia shouldn’t give back Crimea to Ukraine in 2014.

    He apologized later, but when he was running for president he was still a bad dude.

    ThirdWorldOrder , (edited )

    en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law

    What does Navalny have to do with Adolf and his Nazis?

    Do you have a better Russian candidate in mind? Should we just let Putin take the reigns until a Russian Ghandi presents himself?

    mellowheat , (edited )

    There’s an important difference in Russia and British India. If a Gandhi appeared in Russia, he’d just be thrown in jail and forgotten there. It’s possible that this has happened already. This is nothing new: it’s what they have been doing to political dissidents for centuries.

    Gandhi’s methods worked in India partially because the British Empire had democratic and liberal principles that even as colonial lords they valued enough not to blatantly break.

    ThirdWorldOrder ,

    And in Russia, you have to appeal to the Nationalists which make up a significant portion of the population. Nationalism doesn’t necessarily mean Nazis.

    Navalny appealed to them and was much more in line with western principles than Putin. Like I originally said, Navalny wasn’t perfect but he was a better option than Putin. Seems a few people disagree with me.

    uis ,

    I wonder how local fauna will react to Bashkir nationalist Salawat Yulayev. Probably their views will align with Russian Empire’s. And will be opposite to Republic Baskortostan’s. For Bashkirs he is national hero.

    For those wondering where Bashkiria is it is roughly in the middle of Russia.

    CommanderCloon ,

    How is a Nazi a “step in the right direction”? There is a lot of opposition to Putin that’s worth supporting, Nazism isn’t one of them

    Seasoned_Greetings ,

    In the same way that Biden is preferable to Trump. Biden is far from perfect, has lukewarm political leanings, only advances soft-left policies to better his own election chances and keeps a cop as a vp.

    But Trump is an actual war mongering lunatic wannabe fascist. Sometimes it’s about the lesser evil.

    Yes, you could say there are plenty of people more worth supporting than these two old farts, but none of them are on the ballot are they?

    It’s that situation with Russia. Putin is an actual, proven warmonger who kills his own countrymen to hold on to power. Someone who doesn’t do either of those things and respects the will of the people is a step up, regardless of their politics, because that person can be voted out.

    ThirdWorldOrder ,

    A lot of people on the internet think there’s an electable Abraham Lincoln instead of what the reality is

    CommanderCloon ,

    You’re only saying that because you know what Putin is like in power, with his racist remarks and Nazi affiliations you don’t even know how worse it could have been with Navalny

    Seasoned_Greetings , (edited )

    Racist remarks

    You mean like how putin criminalized being gay? It’s one thing to make remarks, it’s another thing to actually oppress a minority by claiming their existence is propaganda.

    Nazi affiliation

    So taking nazis from prison with the promise of a pardon if they fight on russias front line is… What?

    You’re only saying that because you know what Putin is like in power

    This is an incredible fallacy. I’m almost lost for words. First of all, any line of logic that relies on the premise “you’re just saying that because you don’t understand how much worse it could be” is just plain wrong. I could say with the exact same amount of confidence that you don’t understand how much better it could be.

    But also, Putin is by far the most dangerous leader the world has seen since Hitler. He’s an actual fascist, who disappears people who pose any kind of threat to him. He’s single handedly swinging his entire country into a war they don’t want because he feels entitled to Ukrainian land.

    I’d take my chances on literally anyone else who respected the vote. Putin does not. I’d take my chances on someone who would end the war. Putin will see a million of his own die before he even considers it.

    Pushing the whole “Navalny was a nazi so he’s automatically worse” is really downplaying how incredibly evil putin actually is. I mean, he’s basically already a nazi in all but name.

    Get out of here with your Russian apologetics.

    uis ,

    This looks so similar to russian electoral joke and part of Putin’s propaganda “current thieves are full, new will be hungry and steal more”.

    uis ,

    only advances soft-left policies

    Soft-left? Biden is more right than Navalny.

    Biden and rest of American “left”: maybe we shold do some student debt relief? Just a tini-tiny. If you don’t mind.

    Party started by literal member of Union of Right Forces: universal education, state must provide students with everything(including housing and food) so they don’t worry about anything else other than learning, state must provide teachers with everything(including decent salary) so they don’t wory about anything else other than teaching, state must provide universities with all necessary equipment, buildings must be maintained in good condition(so ceiling wouldn’t fall on students’ and teachers’ heads)!

    ThirdWorldOrder ,

    What makes you think he was a Nazi? I really hate how watered down the word Nazi is these days. You’re being hyperbolic.

    CommanderCloon ,

    He compared the people from the region of Caucasus to cockroaches who should be shot and had skinhead and neonazi affiliations.He also supported the invasion of Georgia in 2008, comparing Georgians to rodents. He regularly attended marches of a racist which the slogan is “Russia for ethnic russians”, posted a video where he called for deportations of immigrants…

    It’s not a case of exaggeration, he was anti Putin because he wanted a racist in power.

    ThirdWorldOrder ,

    “Navalny released YouTube videos in which he likened Islamic militants to cockroaches, called for the deportation of immigrant workers, and vowed to defend the rights of ethnic Russians in Russia.”

    This is a pretty mainstream view for a lot of countries.

    Anti immigration doesn’t mean you’re a racist.

    uis ,

    For context on militants: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamil_Basayev

    ThirdWorldOrder ,

    I’m not sure if you’re right or wrong. We are talking about comments made over 15 years ago.

    Let me put it to you this way - would you rather Putin or Navalny in charge of Russia?

    uis ,

    Obviously Navalny.

    over 15 years ago.

    Kadirov’s troops still exist. After killing russians in Russia they did some killing ukrainians in Ukraine, but I think they are back to killing russians too.

    uis ,

    He compared the people from the region of Caucasus to cockroaches who should be shot

    Navalny: talks about how terrible for Russia Kadirov’s personal army is

    Americans: He must be a racist!

    Kadirov’s personal army: Joins war in Ukraine. On Putin’s side.

    Americans: Navalny is the worst!

    Iceman ,

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=qucpwhtWFjk

    It’s still on his Youtube channel. He even shoots a woman in hijab in it! But all his useful idiots will ask you to ignore these dog-whistles. This is of course from back in the day when he was the co-funder of the ultranationalist party National Russian Liberation Movement, that among other things wanted South Ossetia and Abkhazia be made independent from Georgia alá Donbas.

    uis ,

    It’s still on his Youtube channel.

    No?.. How? He didn’t even create his channel until mayor campaign. This video was made years before that?

    He even shoots a woman in hijab in it!

    Where?

    Iceman ,

    m.youtube.com/watch?v=oVNJiO10SWw

    It’s his verified account, what more do you want? Argue thats it’s impossible for him to ever have created a new one?

    As for where? The video is 40 seconds long, even the most ticktock addicted 4 year old have the attention span to see it.

    uis ,

    It is not his account. This is. FYI youtube gives checkmark to everyone with 10k subscribers.

    mellowheat ,

    “It was a long time ago,” Alexander Verkhovsky, head of the Moscow-based Sova hate crimes monitor, told Al Jazeera in 2021, describing Navalny as “a different man now”.

    aljazeera.com/…/obit-navalny-putins-archenemy-and…

    uis ,

    he did not think that Crimea could be just “handed back” by a post-Putin Russian government.

    It is interesting way to rephrase his “Crimea is not a sandwich with sausage to return it back and forth”. For context in 2014 propaganda was talking about annexation as “returning” Crimea to Russia.

    Gooey0210 ,

    Who’s not happy can go here neputin.orgAnd maybe even here shtab.navalny.com

    ahriboy ,

    Navalny was xenophobic. You can’t replace far-right with another far-right, it will still be worse.

    The only option is to pick someone who is inclusive of multiculturalism and LGBT people.

    TheEighthDoctor ,

    He also believed Crimea should be Russian, so I’m not happy he is dead but I’m sure as hell happy that he is not Putin’s replacement.

    ahriboy ,

    Crimea is and will be always Ukraine.

    gianni ,
    @gianni@lemmy.ca avatar

    This is a mischaracterization of his statements and lacks nuance.

    You can read more here: nytimes.com/…/navalnys-comments-on-crimea-ignite-…

    TheEighthDoctor ,

    “I think that despite the fact that the Crimea was seized with outrageous violations of all international norms, nevertheless, the realities are such that Crimea is now part of the Russian Federation,”

    Seems pretty clear.

    uis ,

    The only option is to pick someone who is inclusive of multiculturalism and LGBT people.

    There is small problems with “inclusive of multiculturalism” part: namely Bashkirs, Buryats, Yakuts, Udmurts and others. Russia IS multicultural.

    You can’t replace far-right with another far-right, it will still be worse.

    24 years of “not getting worse”. Oligarch’s yachts are not getting worse for sure, but what about citizens?

    American “left” says they will ask for partial debt relief maybe eventually, while Russian right demands increase funding of education, healthcare, social welfare and scientific research, tenfolding wages of teachres, doctors, feldshers, nurses, peofessors and public transit drivers. Along with providing students food, housing, decent stipend, decent pension for retired and more because if state can afford to pay endless hoard of polizai it sure can pay all mentioned before. And always-present anti-corruption stance because he was investigating it for last 10 years.

    His presidency campaign also had redusing presidency term back to 4 years, full transition from conscript army to contract army, declassifying everything FSB did and lustrations, reducing president’s power, increasing parlament power, nationalization of assets of oligarchs that participated in loan auction or corruption.

    Finally stopping paying Kadirov, returning army from Syria and other far-right isolatioanism stuff.

    Prandom_returns ,

    Not a care in russia. As long as there is some vodka and sausage, nobody’s moving a finger.

    ItsAFake ,

    As long as there is some vodka and sausage

    Huh, Guess I’m Russian then.

    uis ,

    Guess I’m not then

    uis ,

    There are wives protests with slogan “I’m tired, return my husband”. But yeah, no big protests in Moscow. Only police closing brony convention.

    Sylvartas ,

    Unfortunately I don’t think his sacrifice is gonna achieve much. I’d love to be proven wrong though.

    maness300 ,

    It will teach people not to do the same thing in the future.

    “Bravery” points on reddit-like forums don’t mean much in the real world.

    mellowheat , (edited )

    I think a good analogy is Claus von Stauffenberg. A german army colonel who in July 1944 tried to assassinate Hitler and very nearly succeeded.

    He was not a great person given his position, but did a very brave thing eventually and is now revered as somebody who at least tried.

    Shenanigore ,

    Like we didn’t know that

    maness300 ,

    Did he really need to sacrifice himself for that?

    Is there seriously anyone who was in denial until they learned about Navalny?

    JustMy2c ,

    Villaviciencio here in Ecuador also sacrificed himself. Yes, people do that…

    maness300 ,

    Yes, but this is Navalny in Russia.

    Krzd ,
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    Sadly, yes. Russian State Media is the only source of information for a lot of “normal” Russians. Although that sadly also means that his sacrifice most likely won’t have a large impact on the Russian political landscape.

    maness300 , (edited )

    Then it’s worse than I thought.

    Kind of strange that a culture with so many pariahs seems to also have a stranglehold on any dissent.

    I guess China is the same way, so I shouldn’t be surprised.

    thesporkeffect ,

    Don’t idolize people, especially don’t idolize politicians. He died for a generally pro-social cause but that is the extent of the take-away here

    thedeadwalking4242 ,

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    federatingIsTooHard ,
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    well he’s a fucking nazi so maybe we stop valorizing him.

    thesporkeffect ,

    Say what you will about hitler, but he DID kill hitler

    thesporkeffect ,
    1. Fuck Putin to death
    2. Explain to me why it’s good to idolize a public figure, you cowards
    Linkerbaan ,
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    I don’t understand why he returned to Russia just to get killed.

    It doesn’t seem to have achieved anything. Did he think the rigged Russian courts would save him?

    Snowden and Assange doing everything they can to stay out of the claws of their fascist overlords, but Navalny just handed himself over to his…

    rdri ,

    Those who don’t understand that paid little attention to his life and his fight. I suggest you checking out the Navalny documentary at least.

    Chocrates ,

    Got a title or a link for the uninformed?

    rdri ,

    It’s called Navalny. They made it available for free here though not sure if proper subtitles are included navalny-film.io

    Otherwise it’s on streaming platforms and torrents.

    Chocrates ,

    Awesome thank you

    preludeofme ,

    That’s called dedicating your life to a cause. He knew he was going to be killed and was willing to give up his life to hopefully bring down Putin at some point hopefully in the future

    summerof69 ,

    I don’t understand why he returned to Russia just to get killed.

    Because in Russia you have to sacrifice yourself and suffer to be “real” politician, and not “stay in cozy Germany”, “preaching from abroad”. Navalny and other imprisoned politicians believe this too, they’re the product of the same society after all.

    rottingleaf ,

    Actually true. If you remember the “Inception” movie (with di Caprio, but a good one), there’s one thing I’d really want to plant into most Russian-speaking people’s brains.

    That they don’t owe anyone suffering or proof or other such things.

    And also that when you concentrate on proving that you are true to some goal, you lose the goal. It doesn’t matter how much you sacrifice proving, you may even die, because you still divert from the goal of doing X to the goal of proving that you really want to do X.

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