Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny dies in prison
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny dies in prison
A prominent critic of President Vladimir Putin, Navalny, 47, spent his final months behind bars as the Russian leader reshaped the country to rally behind his war in Ukraine.
Oh shit they've got him.
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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
Anti-revolutionarism is more important to them I guess.
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?
lmao holy shit
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 and kinda just black pilled at this point. We're so far past the moral event horizon lmao.
Seeing the comments on here isn't helping either, the notion that he's a nazi is a Baptists and bootleggers collaboration between both western and Russian pro-war forces. Both are interested in portraying any given Russian as bloodthirsty and as a non starter alternative to Putin to justify continuing hostility. Navalny is no exception.
The way I see it, he was an opportunist/populist that could see the screws tightening even 20 years ago. And desperately trying to form any kind of coalition that could resist the new siloviki ruling class that were consolidating the power while paying off the population with 'economic growth' (actually just post collapse rebuilding fueled by cash from expensive energy exports).
The ru nationalists were the most prominent/active street movement and he aligned with them absent any real opposition in the duma (which may I remind you was intentionally made impotent after black october 1993). You could compare it to how Ukrainian libs allied with Ukrainian nationalists during the maidan.
The problem of course is that this 'flexibility' and lack of coherent ideology lowered the 'ceiling' of how far his followers would go for him. And we needed (need) to go quite far.
The solution of course is a real leftist movement, but the CPRF was utterly infiltrated/paid off by the capitalists from the very start, the only good things it ever does come from smaller regional branches of it, p much never moscow. You could compare it to the CPUSA back in America in how it harms more than it helps.
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.
well Russian politics sucks what can I say. In the late oughts to early teens I think he really had a chance to ~do the funny~ but kinda chickened out. After 2011 he toned the nationalist rhetoric way down, tried to run for local office, failed miserably and the rest is history.
Regardless he was still the most prominent/broadly unifying figure for anti Putin opposition of all stripes. Idk anyone who is more recognizable, maybe nemtsov but he was shot in 2014.
and yeah I'm a mostly former lib, but as I mentioned in another comment, Communism has a really bad reputation inside Russia due to ongoing propaganda efforts from the government (who love blaming every possible internal problem on the Soviet legacy) and the ongoing ineffectiveness and hypocrisy of the CPRF.
I don't know what to say other than ethnonationalists who call minorities cockroaches belong in the ground and that there is basically no good reason to support them or grieve their deaths.
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?
Mass privatization and "improving conditions for foreign investors" by dismantling labor laws and ecological regulations.
That too is standard line for almost every neoliberal party in the Global South
he didn't have one, that's one of the reasons he ultimately ate shit even in local elections
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.
The fuck have zyuganov and his ilk ever done except run interference for the government for all the Soviet-nostalgic boomers and help suppress any independent leftist organzing? It is no coincidence they were the only ones allowed to participate in elections after the 1993 coup.
“Independent leftist organizing” AKA CIA fronts?
answer the question please I'm genuinely curious