“I didn’t have to be in this place, I didn’t have to record this video. In my place should have been another person. But this person was killed by Putin.”
“I didn’t have to be in this place, I didn’t have to record this video. In my place should have been another person. But this person was killed by Putin.”
What’s this? Propagandiception?
This is not someone to be celebrated. Use his death as an expose on the silencing of dissent in Russia but as nothing more.
He was a Russian fascist with well documented association with the neo-Nazis in the early 2000s then turned into a pro-Western liberal who opposes Putin.
Edit: 2011 NY Times profile about Navalny (CW: racism):
Not to mention he voluntarily went back to Russia after believing they tried to have him killed. I don’t know what he expected
Also the video of him being racist is still up on his personal YouTube channel to be clear. It is not a position he ever distanced himself from.
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Source so I can read without crappy translation and with context?
I do not have an original source for that blog post but here’s some stuff with sources
Openly identifying as a nationalist, and attending nationalist rallies, Navalny was kicked out of Yabloko for his nationalist views.
He created a movement (called “The People”) that targeted immigration.
Navalny called for the separation of Chechnya from Russia.
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He has spoken at the annual Russian March alongside leaders of various neo-Nazi organisations in Russia, many of which have been subsequently outlawed, with leaders arrested. Footage shows attendees flying banners with Nazi insignia, chanting racist and Islamophobic slogans, proudly Nazi saluting to the cameras, and bearing tattoos of Adolf Hitler and other Nazi insignia. Navalny confessed that he has attended the march for at least 4 years running.
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In 2007, on a live broadcast Navalny compared Muslims in southern Russia to tooth decay and cockroaches, imploring viewers to shoot them while he held a gun.
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In 2013, after ethnic riots took place took place in Moscow, Navalny championed the rioters for confronting “hordes of legal and illegal immigrants” on his blog.
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Also he was groomed by the CIA as a potential leader of Russia in the Yale World Leaders Program (funded by the NED, a subsidiary of the CIA), which had connections to the 2014 Ukrainian coup.
Source for this one unfortunately not longer exists as far as I am aware (dead link) but I thought it was worth noting if you want to look into it yourself
I also want to make it clear I am not someone who defends Russia nor Putin. I just think this is the last person we should glorify
Not that Chechnya didn’t want to be separate. Twice.
No, he compared Basayev and Kadirov. Kadirov’s personal froces already killed journalist in the middle of Moscow. Then they killed another journalist and human rights activist and Boris Nemtsov. Eventually killing only chechens and russians became too boring for Kadirov so he kills ukrainians too since 2022.
Kadirov is basically feudal lord of Chechnya. And tooth decay part was mentioned because russian laws doesn’t work in Chechnya and this practice spreads out in other regions.
Lololol nice try Russian propagandists
People downvoted you 🤦
https://archive.org/details/VideoAlexeiNavalnyComparesMuslimsToCockroaches
RT’s propaganda works.
Kadirov: *kills journalist in Moscow*
Navalny: *talks about how terrible for Russia Kadirov and his personal army are*
Americans: He must be a racist!
Kadirov’s personal army: *Joins war in Ukraine. On Putin’s side.*
Americans: Navalny is the worst!
Meanwhile try to find anything where he says it is because they are muslims or where he says same things for example about Baskirs.
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Can’t even downvote their bullshit now. the amount of immature shit I read in this comment thread made me think I was on hexbear or lemmygrad. Thanks for putting things into context and being the voice of reason.