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Alexei Navalny Sacrificed Himself to Show Russia That Putin Is a Monster (www.thedailybeast.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

https://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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

https://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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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!

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

“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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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.