Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny dies in prison

Feels like this is the only lesson from this.
The motherfucker was a real believer in... whatever variation of a liberal-fash ego trip he made up for himself. The russian state and judicial system fucked with him at every point of his attempt to stir the public or participate in politics and for some fucking reason he kept pushing his luck.
Then they poisoned him with chemical weapon grade poison and almost killed him, then he got offered one last possible exit from ANGELA MERKEL herself. And he just went back. Commited to the bit till the end.
- Not if you’re the “MI6 did it both times to frame Russia” gang

Libs will be more worked up about this than the continuing genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza plus the injuries, suffering, and death in the West Bank.

Hmm, I wonder why
- Navalny was the whitest of Russians though, in all possible meanings of the word.
Well of course. They tend to be driven by the suffering of dogs than people.

Libs were always weird about this guy and sincerely believed he was a bigger deal than he was. Polls showed him trailing behind the Communist Party candidate and the financial minister

West in the true spirit of NATO as usual going for open fascists and racist to promote.
lib laymen just repeat the propaganda, lib officials know they're lying (actually it's hard to even tell anymore)

RIP Dollar General Juan Guaido.

RIP Instagram Yeltsin
- Yeltsin has been deposed for makin it clap on instagram

I'm curious why anyone really gives a shit about this, the likelihood this guy was ever gonna me a challenger to Putin at this point is, what? .000000000001%, if that. Surprised I'm seeing as many posts about this as I am.

- Yeah but I haven't heard Libs talk about him in YEARS. He's less relevant that
Western liberals believed that Navalny was the opposition leader to Putin. He was always talked about in media as "the opposition leader". Not "a opposition leader" but specifically "the".
This is important because it frames in people's minds that he was the main opposition. It makes people think of it in a Republican vs Dems way.
This framing is helped by the fact that the communist party is literally NEVER talked about in western media. They don't exist as far as liberals know.
We have to hear about this guy solely because the US State Dept wanted him to be the
of Russia. Well, I guess he was, in that he failed utterly.

imagine this being your life: sitting in prisons waiting for the CIA to help install you as the president. then you just die. lmao couldn't be me. what a dumbass.

Goodbye Mr navalny and hello Mr guaido

Ivan Ivanovich Gvaidov
Pretty sure Guiado will be the next president of Ukraine when zelenski steps down. Or maybe shoot for the stars why not replace Biden

surprised it took them this long

I wonder how the libs, who love this guy, will react to this.

By ignoring the times he called muslims cockroaches and called for immigrants to be shot even harder
- I mean, with a bit of media training and a land acknowledgement that's basically just the mainstream Dem position.
- Average lemmitor on their way to reinvent scientific racism
- racism aside… are liberals seriously approving the idea that the people were "free" under the absolute monarchy of the tsars? literally what is the point of liberalism in that case? they should be proud of the French Revolution and anti-monarchism
- Holy. It's gone from mild thinly veiled liberal level racism to strait up fascist "scientific" racism real fast.
- They defederated and instantly went straight to the calipers, incredible.
- "Since the tsars"... SINCE the tsars?
- Because as we all know, people in prisons can't die, they just live forever unless evil Putin gets them. Why else would we call it a life sentence?
- Putin isn't just week: he's day, hour even. His time is up!
- I'm a Russian lib
  Hmm
  I'm a... lib
  
  notion that he's a nazi is a Baptists and bootleggers collaboration between both western and Russian pro-war forces.
  Okay so I've seen the cockroach video. Can you explain why I shouldn't believe he means what he said in that video?
  You could compare it to how Ukrainian libs allied with Ukrainian nationalists during the maidan.
  Well if I do that I just have to
  
  at this news. Allying yourself politically to fascists makes you a fascist.
- What was Navalny’s platform for domestic economic development, apart from fighting right-wing corruption which is the standard line for almost every neoliberal party in the Global South?
- You could compare it to the CPUSA back in America in how it harms more than it helps.
  The CPUSA does not harm more than it helps
- You could compare it to the CPUSA back in America in how it harms more than it helps.
  With the exception that the CPRF has a glorious past and has actually done stuff, unlike CPUSA. I think they haven’t done anything interesting since the 1930s.

Libs gave an Oscar to a movie about a guy who said he’d have no problem working with fascists if it made sure his goals are met. Good riddance.

Wake up Babe, new bozo just RIP'd

But does he condemn Hummus?

Vaxxed

A fascist died?

oh well

Update: Yuliya Navalnaya made a surprise appearance at the Munich Security Conference to appeal to everyone to punish the Russian regime. (NY Times)

Just hours after her husband was reported dead, Yulia Navalnaya made a dramatic, surprise appearance at a gathering of world leaders in Munich on Friday. Taking the stage, she denounced President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and vowed that he and his circle “will be brought to justice.”

The diplomats and political leaders at the Munich Security Conference were already reeling from reports that her husband, Aleksei A. Navalny, the Russian dissident, had died in prison under suspicious circumstances when Ms. Navalny stunned the hall by striding in. Conference organizers quickly wrapped up a session with Vice President Kamala Harris and turned the microphone over to Ms. Navalnaya.

“We cannot believe Putin and his government,” Ms. Navalnaya told the audience. “They are lying constantly. But if it’s true, I would like Putin and all his staff, everybody around him, his government, his friends, I want them to know that they will be punished for what they have done with our country, with my family and with my husband. They will be brought to justice, and this day will come soon.”

Yuliya Navalnaya made a surprise appearance at the Munich Security Conference to appeal to everyone to punish the Russian regime.
What are they gonna do, double sanction Russia so that they have to pas their gas through two middlemen and ultimately eat the double markup themselves?
- More funding for Ukraine. Some people are getting very rich off this, and clearly think the money well in Ukraine hasn’t dried up yet.
between this and the BS story about Russian space nuke national security threats, the US deep state is putting the full court press on politicians to keep funding the ukraine war.
this is all war mongering propaganda.
Munich Security Conference were already reeling
Do you know if UKR+USA blowing up Nord Stream was on the agenda of this important German security conference? What did they say about that? Will they bring them to justice?
- Actually the german green government will thank them for decarbonizing Germany and stopping evil putin to spreak his malignant influence into muh democratic society.
  Now they can import ethically sourced oil from the free and democratic state of qatar.

Hey hey buys remember Russian space weapons which are also our weaponsmplans that have been on the books since the 50s?

Hey hey hey remember Space Force?

Remember the COLD WAR?

Don't cut our military budget please? Come one you got to be outrages at something to distract from out genocide. Come one we're the good guys remember? Putin bad remember? Remember commies bad? Come on!

Why does it feel like the US consent manufacturing machine is getting increasingly desperate with every passing news cycle?
- That's because they are. The machine has to repeatedly manufacture consent more and more rapidly than they have ever done before to distract from the declining quality of life at home and keep the masses primed for war on the far side of the world rather than boiling over in rage at their own rulers who have robbed them. Naturally this increased pace of production of propaganda now gives us some rather unfinished products so to speak.

🦀 🦀 🦀

My man went from Blogger to Future President of Russia to Guy With Polonium Poisoning In A Serbian Prison and there's a part of me that's genuinely a bit jealous, because I'm still stuck at Blogger.

I know you meant Siberia but I did have a moment of confusion about why he was being held in Serbia
- Derp

Looking forward to the Radio War Nerd episode about it that's probably coming out in let's see... twenty seconds or so

blue jean baby, l.a. lady
seamstress for the band

Love seeing a fascist die

Do you think it was the polonium-flavored tea that did it, as our liberal visitor from another thread would suggest?

First, @UlyssesT@UlyssesT@hexbear.net left Hexbear and Kissinger died within 24 hours
Now, @NaibofTabr@infosec.pub accuses Putin of poisoning Navalny and leaves Hexbear, and Navalny dies within 24 hours

I’m just asking questions
- Hex”bear” is a Russian disinformation website.
I mean apparently he was in hospital previously due to Novichok which is another favourite.

Comrade @yogthos@lemmygrad.ml has been posting good stuff to remind the libs they're cheering for fascism, again.

Also today Hexbear stands in Solidarity with Ukraine in celebrating the death of that cockroach Navalny

Oof supporting Navalny a rare hexbear L. I guess most people in the west don't actually know what he's all about.
- Thus the necessity of posting educational materials so people will know to post
  instead of anything else.
- aren't they literally praising your posting ??
- I assure you there is nobody here supporting Navalny lol
Even Ukraine is saying good riddance? Christ, western liberals is so ideologically broken
Also this whole, “x critic of Putin dies” stuff is no different from the Clinton kill list.
It should be illegal to be this reductionist

Putin Distraught Over Friends Who Keep Dying Under Mysterious Circumstances
At press time, Putin claimed he wouldn’t know what to do if anything ever happened to his good friend Alexei Navalny.
Common Onion W

Fucking good, hated that bitch worse than putin

People are already crying crocodile tears and exalting him as a paragon of freedom. Some are even doing the whole instagram story thing.

Sooo ridiculous, good riddance to that nazi.

May he rest in piss.

Putin out here doing in fascists. I don't like the guy but he is consistent in doing what he's saying.

skill issue gg noob sit lmao get armadyl godsword specced irl

oh no, anyway, whats going on for everybody this Friday?

lmao

Anyone have a tldr about the guy? Article says nothing about him.

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):
Liberals, meanwhile, have deep reservations about him, because he espouses Russian nationalist views. He has appeared as a speaker alongside neo-Nazis and skinheads, and once starred in a video that compares dark-skinned Caucasus militants to cockroaches. While cockroaches can be killed with a slipper, he says that in the case of humans, “I recommend a pistol.”
- fascist
  pro-Western liberal
- crucially a video that is still on his personal channel
- At least a cockroach is smart enough to require a slipper. What do you call the insect that voluntarily walks into a trap?
I have barely been able to find anything out about the guy besides the fact that he led an anti-immigrant hate march in 2006 and has apparently "moved away from right wing politics in recent years to become a prominent critic of Putin, while declining to renounce his previous political affiliations" real milquetoast reporting all round.
- Just another Nazi supported by the West.
- Western media whitewashed him super hard after they hallowed him as "opposition leader" and "Putin's real opponent" while in reality he was not only always irrelevant but was an open neonazi of the kind even most western regimes pack into jail or kick out just in case. Or used to pack before Ukraine war made everyting up to 99% Hitler acceptable.
- moved away from right wing politics in recent years [...] while declining to renounce his previous political affiliations
  What a weird way of saying that he hasn't moved away from fascism.
His wikipedia bio is funny, because of how much all his views "have evolved" from hardcore nationalist fascism, to platitudes about social issues.

Why is he the opposition leader when other parties get more votes?

Lying by omission. I have literally never seen it mentioned in western press that the communist party is the official opposition. Its like if headlines about Canada called Jagmeet Singh an opposition leader. But that might actually be a little accurate though since the NDP (not under Singh) has been the official opposition!
I'm guessing it's because he was the leader of the Russian Opposion Council, a group operating outside the democratic and governmental system. Also transparently a group to launder American interests if they're able to foment a coup.
Its fucking dumb they keep saying opposition leader to mean a more generic opposition when opposition leader has a very specific meaning when talking about democratic systems. Gives an intentionally false impression of popular support that being an opposition leader in a democratic system entails.
He wasn't even ever the leader of the LDPR, which isn't even the opposition, but at least is the 3rd most popular party.
- Thanks for the brief primer, given how much press the Russian Opposition Council's guy gets, that wikipedia page is uncomfortably short.
  to any wiki war comrades.

RIP he wouldve loved the global caliphate in the making

Can someone explain to me why we have 🦀's out for this one? It's not like he's a hero or anything, I certainly am not going to miss him, but I thought he was basically just a somewhat more anti corruption, anti-immigration, and in other ways more socially progressive version of Putin who just got

'd for trying to organize an equally shitty party to most of the other parties, including United Russia and Putin's All-Russian People's Front

e: good discussion below, tl;dr he has earned his crabs

He's a fascist of the neo Nazi variety. Constantly dehumanized Caucasians (of the Caucasus mountains like chechens dagastanis Georgians Armenians etc). He's basically the zelenskiyiyiyiyi of Russia
- I can't find anything on the neo-nazi thing in particular (I don't doubt it), but he's certainly fash, no doubt. I'm just suggesting that he's anti-immigration fash standing in opposition to pro-assimilation fash. The only reason anti-immigration seems to be such an anti-state position in Russia is because Putin has correctly read that Russia has a population crisis and is seeking to remedy that by turning foreigners into Russians. Navalny doesn't seem more or less fascist than Putin, he just seems to have a different idea as to what to do with the Other. Which is I guess a reason to bring the 🦀s out, but no more or less so than when Putin kicks it, besides that Putin is a very expedient thorn in
  's side.
  The one biggest reason I could imagine celebrating Navalny's death is that he is the enemy of our enemy's enemy (Navalny/The West/Putin). Besides that, he's just as fash as a lot of folks who we critically support due to their relation to the West, like Lukashenko and Assad.
somewhat more anti corruption, anti-immigration, and in other ways more socially progressive
one of these is not like the other
- oh obviously, but neither side seems to pro-immigrant, Navalny would just rather see them expelled where Putin would rather see them utilized. There's some degree of nuance on this; I really don't want to come across as a Navalny Stan, but this is also wildly different from Stalin locking up Solzhenitsyn, which was based and cool

Russian prisons do be in need of improvement, sucks over there

Indeed, but I mean, its Siberia... if its very snowy in my area, it's prbly hell enough to travel and live in there
- I think prison sucking is universal, only scandinavia figured it ous somewhat:(
  But i mean i heard of overcrowding and disease spreading for russian prisons, which is bad and seems easily solvable

lol rip bozo

good riddance

Alexei Navalny has declared himself interim president of Hades.

Not to be rude but how did he think this was gonna go?

Russia defeated by the Nazis and Wagner with
, the locals welcoming them as liberators and personally freeing him to lead the new bulkanized United Nazi Western Opposition to China and north Korea.
These ppl are always surrounded by yes men, he probably really believed that he was very popular lmao.