Putin's critic Alexia Navalny is dead
Putin's critic Alexia Navalny is dead
Jailed Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny has died, Russian media report, citing the prison service.
Some sources suggest he was taking a walk and suddenly fell to the ground. Very mysterious. Guess they ran out of windows.
Party elders were alarmed by his push for a more nationalist message. Defiantly, he recorded a pro-gun rights video in which he compared people from Russia’s mostly Muslim North Caucasus to “cockroaches” and mimicked shooting one with a pistol.
Racist fuck.
https://www.ft.com/content/c3adf28c-07d0-11ea-a984-fbbacad9e7dd
He regularly participated in neo-nazi marches, advocated to strip non-ethnic Russians of their Russian citizenship, and called muslim Chechens cockroaches. Anyone advocating for him as a "lesser evil" wants full-blown nazism.
This is so sad for the world. RIP
Given what the west is backing in Gaza, I really get why westerners are so upset that a white nationalist is dead.
The world will truly miss generic American asset #361 aka 'navalny'.
Ivan Guiadovsky
The world couldn't care less 🤣
There will be others, this was highly unlikely to not happen
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Russia's most significant opposition leader for the past decade, Alexei Navalny, has died in prison inside the Arctic Circle, the prison service said.
Seen as President Vladimir Putin's most vociferous critic, Navalny was serving a 19-year jail term for offences widely considered politically motivated.
He was moved to an Arctic penal colony, considered one of the toughest jails, late last year.
The prison service in the Yamalo-Nenets district said he had "felt unwell" after a walk on Friday.
The causes of his death were being established, Tass news agency reported.
This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly.
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Rest in peace Alexia
This is so sad. Alexia, play Despacito
Oh right, this instance's hot takes are going to be complete nonsense. 'The tortured opposition leader wasn't perfect, you guys!' No kidding. He still gets partial credit for sticking his neck out against a dictator-for-life who routinely murders opposition leaders. Everyone you'd prefer is already fucking dead.
libs 🤝 fascists
But telling you where to shove it would be uncivil.
The funniest thing I've seen on Lemmy was someone insisting socialism is pragmatic and liberals are idealists, because it comes to mind every single god-dang time one of y'all shits all over opposition to outright dictatorship. So long as the dictator is from a country you insist was actually state-capitalist - the real evil is anyone fighting brutal profiteering autocracy, unless they're ideologically pure.