Police officers detain a woman who laid flowers for Alexei Navalny at the Memorial to Victims of Political Repression in St. Petersburg, Russia on Friday, Feb. 16, 2024.
Russian authorities say that Alexei Navalny, the fiercest foe of Russian President Vladimir Putin who crusaded against official corruption and staged massive anti-Kremlin protests, died in prison. He was 47. (AP Photo)
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Wait but Tucker Carlson told us Russia was an amazing place, better than America!
Let this fucker fade away into obscurity, please.
That guy can stay there if he likes it so much.
Go to jail if you speak out against the president, BUT, there is a nice chandelier in a subway station.
Lol, that bit where he praised their grocery store prices was insane. The average American makes over 300% what the average Russian makes in terms of salary.
That guy has dogshit for brains.
And Rachel Maddow and Hillary Clinton told us America is the greatest country in the world…
Why even have a memorial if you can’t visit it and pay respects?
The Navalny memorial at the Wall of Grief is makeshift.
People are paying tribute to him there because the wall is a monument to Stalin era political persecution and Putin is basically doing the same shit.
As a honeypot to arrest dissenters just like they’re doing.
I’m not even sure how to define how self-satirical it is that they made a monument to the political victims of repression, which is now where they authorize any kind of demonstration if one is ever allowed, and it’s also the spot where they arrest everyone. It’s straight out of a joke.
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It’s nice to see that despite our many differences, some thing unite all of us.
ACAB no matter where you live.
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They’ve arrested like 400 ppl across 30 cities, so far
i can’t imagine she didn’t think she wasn’t going to jail for this
Maybe she had her reasons. Maybe she have had enough of all this. Their government tries to cut out the courageous and leave only spineless brainless matter that doesn’t resist.
at least she got a great photo to share on the pipes
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In a 2007 pro-gun rights video, Navalny presents himself as a “certified nationalist” who wants to exterminate “flies and cockroaches” – while bearded Muslim men appear in cutaways. He whips out a gun and shoots an actor wearing a keffiyeh who tried to “attack” him.
Yeah maybe overt Russian white nationalists shouldn’t be revered and their supporters shouldn’t be given the right to freedom of expression.
Yeah, not like he changed his tune at all since fucking 07.
Hey tell me about how invading a soverign country is totally cool and OK to do.
Oh great, so he’s a covert Russian white nationalist who only wants to exterminate Muslims in secret.
Wait…
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There being a bigger asshole doesn’t make an asshole a saint. I don’t buy Navalny’s 180 on his nationalist, islamophobe, and homophobe stances. And no liberal Russian I know (quite a few) does either. The western narrative of “Putin bad, Navalny against Putin, so Navalny good” is really strange. Given the chance Navalny could have been the next Hitler. Have you ever watched/listened to the stuff that guy said?
If Biden sent Seal Team 6 after Trump, that would be a serious problem, and not because I revere Trump.
Im not sure how i feel about that, and this might be an unpopular take, but does everyone need an absolutely untarnished past to be able to be recognized for something? Or can we just accept that while not a perfect person, he is a pretty decent figurehead for anti-putinism?
He had recognized how wrong he was quite a while ago.
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I actually wanted to look this up. This is an interesting article - https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-evolution-of-alexey-navalnys-nationalism
“He has never apologized for his earliest xenophobic videos or his decision to attend the Russian March. At the same time, he has adopted increasingly left-leaning economic positions and has come out in support of the right to same-sex marriage. This strategy of adopting new positions—without ever explicitly denouncing old ones—is probably the reason the suspicion of ethno-nationalism continues to shadow Navalny.”
I personally don’t have really have opinion either way but was curious.
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White nationalism shouldn’t be revered, but the right to freedom of expression should be.
The right for me to swing my fist ends where your chin begins.
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