Police officers detain a woman who laid flowers for Alexei Navalny at the Memorial to Victims of Political Repression in St. Petersburg, Russia on Friday, Feb. 16, 2024.

Russian authorities say that Alexei Navalny, the fiercest foe of Russian President Vladimir Putin who crusaded against official corruption and staged massive anti-Kremlin protests, died in prison. He was 47. (AP Photo)

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    • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
      63·
      9 months ago

      The Navalny memorial at the Wall of Grief is makeshift.

      People are paying tribute to him there because the wall is a monument to Stalin era political persecution and Putin is basically doing the same shit.

    • iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee
      12·
      9 months ago

      I’m not even sure how to define how self-satirical it is that they made a monument to the political victims of repression, which is now where they authorize any kind of demonstration if one is ever allowed, and it’s also the spot where they arrest everyone. It’s straight out of a joke.

  • nekandro@lemmy.ml
    26·
    9 months ago

    In a 2007 pro-gun rights video, Navalny presents himself as a “certified nationalist” who wants to exterminate “flies and cockroaches” – while bearded Muslim men appear in cutaways. He whips out a gun and shoots an actor wearing a keffiyeh who tried to “attack” him.

    Yeah maybe overt Russian white nationalists shouldn’t be revered and their supporters shouldn’t be given the right to freedom of expression.

  • Catfish [she/her]@lemmygrad.ml
    17·
    9 months ago

    I’m sure the man that regularly participated in neo-nazi marches, advocated to strip non-ethnic Russians of their Russian citizenship, and called muslim Chechens cockroaches is worth celebrating.

      • Catfish [she/her]@lemmygrad.ml
        0·
        9 months ago

        What the fuck is your problem? Instead of actually addressing what I said you just want to start getting transphobic? How about this: would you object to the arrest of the neo-nazis at Charlottesville? I don’t understand what you think is redeemable about this man, all nazis deserve death. We fought a war over this, probably the biggest one yet.

        Edit: Oh nice, you’re just gonna edit your comment after claiming that every person with pronouns in their name has shitty opinions. If you’re gonna be a transphobic dick at least say it with your whole chest.

        • mellowheat@suppo.fi
          0·
          9 months ago

          Edit: Oh nice, you’re just gonna edit your comment after claiming that every person with pronouns in their name has shitty opinions. If you’re gonna be a transphobic dick at least say it with your whole chest.

          You think it’s a bad thing that I recognized I said something shitty and edited it away?

          I don’t understand what you think is redeemable about this man, all nazis deserve death.

          Perhaps this will answer your question:

          Beginning in the late 2000s, Navalny used racial slurs when describing ethnic Georgians, called for the deportation of Muslim migrant workers and delivered speeches at Russian Marches, annual rallies of far-right nationalists, white supremacists and neo-Nazis.

          “It was a long time ago,” Alexander Verkhovsky, head of the Moscow-based Sova hate crimes monitor, told Al Jazeera in 2021, describing Navalny as “a different man now”.

          From https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/16/obit-navalny-putins-archenemy-and-anti-corruption-champion

          • Catfish [she/her]@lemmygrad.ml
            0·
            9 months ago

            You expect me to believe that the man that went to a well-known neo-nazi march for 4 consecutive years in the 2010’s just got his shit together and decided to stop being a nazi while still backing the nationalist party in Russia? He’s not even the most electable candidate against Putin which makes this whole bandwagon everyone’s on even more ridiculous, the second most popular party in Russia is the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia. But everyone keeps trying to posture this supposedly ex-nazi as the last opponent Putin has ever had. It’s ridiculous and not based in reality.

              • Catfish [she/her]@lemmygrad.ml
                0·
                9 months ago

                I don’t know what you expect me to do here, start sucking this random dude’s dick? I don’t care about his opinion. Living in rural America I’ve seen plenty of nazis and Navalny is no different, especially when he’s made his career on advocating for the genocide of muslims in his country. Would you accept the apology of the Grand Wizard of the KKK and just believe he changed his ways because some guy vouched for him?

                • mellowheat@suppo.fi
                  0·
                  9 months ago

                  I get that real actual nazis are horrible and need to be put down, but I feel like you’re exaggerating both the severity of Navalny’s political positions and downplaying Verkhovsky’s position by quite a bit.

            • mellowheat@suppo.fi
              0·
              9 months ago

              Fair enough. I apologize for the fucked up thing I said which was to note that people with gender info in their usernames tend to have opinions that are deeply wrong to me in ways unrelated to gender identity.

  • lntl@lemmy.ml
    7·
    9 months ago

    i can’t imagine she didn’t think she wasn’t going to jail for this

    • ALERT@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      20·
      9 months ago

      Maybe she had her reasons. Maybe she have had enough of all this. Their government tries to cut out the courageous and leave only spineless brainless matter that doesn’t resist.

  • Omega_Haxors@lemmy.mlEnglish
    7·
    9 months ago

    Ya booiiiisss we reddit now!!! EDIT: nevermind it’s just a repost of a reddit thread. Please don’t pollute lemmy with reddit reposts. I quit that shithole site because of crappy posts like this. If it feels like it belongs on the front page of reddit, just post it on reddit instead. (or lemmy world)

    • Omega_Haxors@lemmy.mlEnglish
      6·
      9 months ago

      Though it absolutely should. If I wanted to see low quality content designed to ragebait, I would go to reddit.