1y ago

Putin's critic Alexia Navalny is dead

www.bbc.com

Russian opposition leader Navalny has died, prison service says

Some sources suggest he was taking a walk and suddenly fell to the ground. Very mysterious. Guess they ran out of windows.

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1y ago

Russian opposition leader Navalny has died, prison service says

www.bbc.com /news/world-europe-68315943

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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
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.
- You don't even know who they are.
  
  Of course I do. I don’t know who you are though. 🤣
- There will be others, this was highly unlikely to not happen
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.
- I used to not understand how Hitler was able to rise to power. Now I do. It just requires more people like you.
  
  Oh...was Alexia the Russian leader who, like Hitler, is invading sovereign countries to expand their territory, refuses to tolerate dissent, murders or disappears those who speak out against him, cancels fair elections and then murders his political opponent, and relies on outrageously fake state propaganda and secret police to ensure loyalty?
  Because all of that sounds very Vlad, very Vlad indeed.
  
  Everyone who's not ideologically pure is literally Hitler. You figured out politics and it's super simple, good job.
  Any liberals in the resistance movements against Hitler were literally Hitler.
  Nobody but your special favorite friends are allowed to oppose a warmongering autocrat currently in power over an invading army.
Rest in peace Alexia
- you misspelled piss there bud
  
  Why do you say that? Or am I speaking to mr Putin?
  
  He also misspelled Navalny's name, as OP also did (but the article didn't), which is even more funny since it shows how much they do know about him and are just joining the yapping chorus of western propaganda.
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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