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A little reminder of who this fascist CIA asset was: he regularly participated in neo-nazi marches, advocated to strip non-ethnic Russians of their Russian citizenship, and called muslim Chechens “cockroaches”.
It was so bad that even western media was forced to report on it. In 2021, a BBC article reported even Amnesty International was forced to strip Navalny’s “prisoner of conscience” status for the violence and hate he unremorsefully promoted https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56181084
That same month, US government-funded Radio Free Europe likewise was forced to concede Navalny’s extremist background https://www.rferl.org/a/navalny-failure-to-renounce-nationalist-past-support/31122014.html
And now BBC is spamming articles about “opposition leader dying in arctic prison”
They do love their nazis.
If he had really conquered power libs would have been like “oh no how could this happen, no one could’ve ever forseen that he would be even worse than Putin 😭”
If he had opened Russian markets to exploitation by Wall Street they wouldn’t have cared.
Western libs still look back fondly on the Yeltsin years…
We have pretty conclusive proof they were trying to make him into the Russian Guaido. There’s a clip going around from 2013 claimed to be either Navalny himself or the director of his “anti-corruption” fund (either way makes no difference) that shows them asking a British MI6 agent for 10-20 million dollars in order to plan, in their own words “mass protests, civil initiatives, propaganda, establishing contacts with elites”.
My bet is that the West decided now that he was going to serve a decades long sentence for numerous crimes he was no longer worth anything as an asset and they burned him. They did it at an opportune enough moment to create distraction from unfavorable developments and try to use this along with the fearmongering story they ran about Russian space nukes to get the US Congress to give them the money for more weapons to Ukraine.
I can’t be too hard on him. In hindsight I guess it’s easy to say he shouldn’t have died in prison, but I’m sure he had his reasons.
cool
Blairite labour are all posting their little eulogies about him, claiming that he was a hero of democracy. But, like, Navalny was a Neo-Nazi he wasn’t gonna democratise shit. Like, why hitch your wagon to one of the Russian politicians more reactionary than Putin, especially now he’s dead?
Because when they say “democratise”, they actually mean “privatise everything and start selling out to international financial capital”. Don’t forget: nazis were a tool of the bourgeoisie to clamp down on proletariat and ensure private profits
I understand why the liberals disingenuously label live Nazis as freedom fighters, like, they do it so often that at this point I wonder if it’s an involuntary reflex for them to cheer when they see a swastika.
I don’t understand why they’re still doing it now he’s dead and therefore no longer any use to them.
A dead martyr is more useful than a live one, sometimes
NATO monkey brain short circuits to pitting nazis against Russia. Any other logic or consideration is immediately hurled out of the window.
All of the most popular subreddits are talking about Navalny’s death as if he was some kind of hero. It is impressive how propaganda can PR this dude’s image into a fantastical hero/human that liberals can look up to. Truly disgusting how libs fall for this
He will not be missed RIP BOZO
The only thing the Western media portrayed him as was as an opponent of Putin. His nationalist tendencies were unknown to Western libs.
As so was his irrelevancy in the general landscape of Russian politics.
Never fails to take me out when I hear know-nothing burgers talking about “if there were an election he’d have beat putler 2:1” and I’m just fighting the urge to start smirking like “oh, so the same margins that clinton was supposed to beat trump by right?”
Wonders of fake news. I had to explain to my gf today that he was in fact not the only opposition to Putin.
In the minds of western libs, nations in what the west calls “the jungle” doesn’t have a fully-fledged political system with differing ideologies and interests based in material conditions. Instead they just have a simple pro-democracy/pro-western Vs. pro-BadCountry/authoritarian divide.
Libs framed him as a russian MLK 😅
civil whites leader
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The crabs will rave today
Why though?
Racist US backed stooge who got dooped into ending up in a Russian prison lol. IIRC he was advised to return to Russia to be sone kinda martyr by his handlers.
How is he U.S backed, and how does he have a handler (really, no mass appeal)
Can you explain (I’m out of the loop)?
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yeah i never understood why he went back. he got out, he could’ve just shut up and lived in the west into old age.
Maybe Putin killed him, maybe he didn’t. But wasn’t he in jail for 2 years? Why wait so long for a hit?
I believe he had issues throughout his captivity. Sickness, hunger strike, that kind of stuff. I don’t think he got a five star hotel treatment either and eventually your health becomes at several risk. Or maybe Putin just killed him.
It’s not just the ~300 days in prison. It’s not like it was hard to kill him at any point prior. Not to mention the dumb fuck did more to die himself with that “poisoning”(probably an OD).
Honestly, I don’t see a single reason why Putin would do it. The situation was perfect for him as it was - Navalny was largely forgotten and had no bearing on anything. If anything, he won’t appreciate a minor shitstorm on the Internet a month before the elections.
But hey, “great” people can’t just die of health issues, it’s always someone!
I think the simplest explanation is that Russian prisons, like most other prisons, are simply bad for your health in general, especially if it is weakened by an OD/poisoning/whatever. It would make more sense for the yanks to kill him than it would for Putin (who would have gained more from people simply forgetting about him), although it seems lightly implausible (but not impossible) that they infiltrated a Siberian penal colony just to kill a guy so he could be used as a martyr.
although it seems lightly implausible (but not impossible) that they infiltrated a Siberian penal colony just to kill a guy so he could be used as a martyr.
Well, they wouldn’t have to, really. It’s not that hard to pay a crooked prison guard these days. But yeah, my money’s on a prison beyond the polar circle being bad for you, especially when you’re not that healthy to begin with, as well.
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is it a problem to be against both?
Everyone I don’t like is a Putin supporter
The world is more complex than “Putin bad”
No we are not
Rest in piss, fascist fuck.
World News having the expected meltdown. No early weekend for people working in Langley.
Shoutout to the people on reddit who ‘vividly remember the day he was poisoned’ and to those saying he would be the Russian Mandela, bringing peace and justice to Russia.
I still can’t believe he’s gone, he was such an inspiration for western media
Hoo boy, brace yourself
a sad day for racists everywhere
Goodbye Mr navalny and hello Mr guaido
Guyadov
Ivan Guyadov elected as interim president of Russia
Ukrainians celebrating lmao
rare ukrain w
Can we even say the one and only ukrain w?
no, we cant
I was confused for a second, then remembered he allegedly supported the Crimea affair
Ukrainians aren’t wrong to celebrate. Navalny would’ve conducted total war against Ukraine if he somehow came into power.
Definitely and im sure it was intended.
The way i see it, the plan was to keep building the war capabilities of Ukraine while trying to destabilize Russia with fascists like Navalny, fascists are very easy to manipulate and predict. Having fascists factions in Russia would’ve inevitably led to an internal conflict because of the huge cultural diversity in Russia. A more armed Ukraine wouldve seized the chance with the backing of NATO.
Needless to say, the SMO caught the west by surprise and, with how its going, will end up ruining whatever they had planned in the region.
Looks like protests have erupted since this happened, with some protest signs are in english, and people are getting arrested too. Does anyone know what going on with that?
Sounds like a spontaneous opportunistic NED/CIA/western-billionaire-NGO colour revolution attempt to me.
That was my immediate thought too. The English signs threw me off the most, it’s not like they need to reach a wider audience so what gives? It’s very fishy…
English signs can mean two things:
- They want “the international community” () to notice them and do something.
- It is a lot easier to get the guys in Langley to approve your slogans when you don’t try to make them read a foreign language.
I reckon that neither is going to convince any significant number of Russians of anything other than the fact that these libs are making fools of themselves.
Signs in English used to be quite widespread in such gatherings. Same with pro-EU “protests” in Georgia, Armenia and back in 2014 in Ukraine.
Yeah and the smell of money was always following them right to the Washington.
Does anyone know what going on with that?
Not much. I found numbers from 55 to 400 arrested country-wide in two days. They’ll get 20 days and a fine at the very worst. I think you can surmise how widespread and consequential these protests are. As I saw someone say on TG Navalny’s hamsters remaining in the country can probably be caught on one camera shot from a drone if they were in one place.
So a small group going feral for Western propaganda? Very cool…