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[–] 88 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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".

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  • [–] 51 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 47 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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 😭"

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  • [–] 50 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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...

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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago

    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.

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  • [–] 70 points 2 years ago

    crab-party hexcrab-party sicko-crab hexcrab-party crab-party

    Rest in piss, fascist fuck.

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  • [–] [S] 69 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    World News having the expected meltdown. No early weekend for people working in Langley.

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  • [–] 63 points 2 years ago

    a sad day for racists everywhere

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  • [–] 62 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    He will not be missed RIP BOZO

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  • [–] [S] 80 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    The only thing the Western media portrayed him as was as an opponent of Putin. His nationalist tendencies were unknown to Western libs.

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  • [–] 54 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    As so was his irrelevancy in the general landscape of Russian politics.

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  • [–] 35 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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?"

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    [–] 60 points 2 years ago

    Oh no

    Anyway

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  • [–] 58 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

    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?

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    [–] 53 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Ukrainians celebrating lmao

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  • [–] 43 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Ukrainians aren't wrong to celebrate. Navalny would've conducted total war against Ukraine if he somehow came into power.

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  • [–] 35 points 2 years ago

    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.

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  • [–] 50 points 2 years ago

    Hoo boy, brace yourself

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  • [–] 47 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Goodbye Mr navalny and hello Mr guaido

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  • [–] 42 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Maybe Putin killed him, maybe he didn't. But wasn't he in jail for 2 years? Why wait so long for a hit?

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  • [–] 42 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    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!

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] [S] 40 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    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 a severe risk. Or maybe Putin just killed him.

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  • [–] 42 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    He just died? Wow. I didn’t know that. You are telling me now for the first time. He led an amazing life. What else can you say. Whether you agreed or not, he was an amazing man who led an amazing life. I am actually sad to hear that. I am sad to hear that.

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    [–] 40 points 2 years ago*

    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

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  • [+] 32 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    No figure better encapsulates Western liberal propaganda against Russia.

    Notice the complete absence of discussion of any other oppositions figures or forces (controlled or otherwise) within Russia, along with the attendant impression that he is supposed to be far more popular than he actually is.

    Note the conspiracy of silence regarding his past and actual political ideology.

    That being said, whatever the circumstances of his death, it's a nationalist government killing a fascist. Oh well.

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    [–] 31 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    I saw the lemmy thread for this and it was full of shit-for-brains liberals mourning his loss despite the fact they have zero idea who he was. At least they stopped once the comment explaining who he was got to the top.

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    [–] 31 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    Trudeau being annoying about this, what else is new:

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    [–] 28 points 2 years ago

    New gender inclusive bathroom

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago

    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.

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