In 2020, Navalny was poisoned by Putin and barely managed to survive after months of recovery. While in a coma, he was flown to Germany for medical treatment. Many assumed that he would never return to Russia since it was likely a death sentence.
He did return, knowing that a life in exile would be used to claim that he was selfish and uncommitted to actual improvement for the country. He spent the last three years of his life in various Russian jails for falsified nonsense charges. Putin is a cheater, a thief, and a murderer.
The world needs more courageous, principled men like Aleksey Navalny.
It’s a huge loss. I didn’t know much about him until last year when I started watching his YouTube channel to help with learning Russian. Really impressive what he and his team were able to do despite the oppression
Feeling generous I see……
From what I understand, Putin started off as the typical platformless, corrupt egomaniac obsessed with self enrichment, but eventually morphed into…… well…… what he is today
He’s still corrupt and an egomaniac+ war criminal + murderer. He seems less able to do the”say what audiences what to hear” thing anymore
That’s true. I’m just not confident his replacement won’t end up the same way as him.
He was once the “promising fresh blood” and managed to play the bit for a couple of years in the 2000s
Yeltsin was also once that way- a democratic replacement for the old, corrupt soviet system
Perhaps if he had actually gotten into power, he would also morph into something corrupt after 20 years just like pretty much every Russian leader …
Regardless, he had a platform built on exposing the current corrupt “czar”, believed in the potential of his country and was willing to suffer and die for that platform.
He might have had nefarious motives, but deciding to return to Russia despite being poisoned and knowing that he would be locked up in horrendous conditions upon arrival (basically a suicide mission) isn’t exactly the typical behaviour of someone looking for grand personal gain, especially when everyone close to him and most of his support base told him to NOT come back
I do agree that western media overblows his successes. He and his org never had a chance.
I don’t believe that Navalny was working for the CIA, but so what if he was? He still put his life on the line against a vicious mass-murderer to try to bring justice to his country.
The only defense of Putin is to try to push the conversation into a pool of cynical moral relativism. He’s a deeply evil man. Explain why we shouldn’t support efforts to get rid of him.
