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[–] cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml 87 points 9 months 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".

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 49 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml 27 points 9 months ago (1 children)

And now BBC is spamming articles about "opposition leader dying in arctic prison"

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 9 months ago

They do love their nazis.

[–] lil_tank@lemmygrad.ml 47 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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 😭"

[–] knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml 49 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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...

[–] cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml 31 points 9 months 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.

[–] DankZedong@lemmygrad.ml 68 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] DankZedong@lemmygrad.ml 63 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml 38 points 9 months ago

I still can't believe he's gone, he was such an inspiration for western media

[–] EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net 68 points 9 months ago

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

Rest in piss, fascist fuck.

[–] Sasuke@hexbear.net 63 points 9 months ago

a sad day for racists everywhere

[–] Idliketothinkimsmart@lemmygrad.ml 62 points 9 months ago (9 children)

He will not be missed RIP BOZO

[–] DankZedong@lemmygrad.ml 79 points 9 months 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.

[–] Valbrandur@lemmygrad.ml 53 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 35 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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?"

[–] DankZedong@lemmygrad.ml 25 points 9 months ago

Wonders of fake news. I had to explain to my gf today that he was in fact not the only opposition to Putin.

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 28 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Libs framed him as a russian MLK 😅

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[–] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 46 points 9 months ago

The crabs will rave today

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[–] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 60 points 9 months ago

Oh no

Anyway

[–] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 57 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months 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?

[–] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 36 points 9 months ago

NATO monkey brain short circuits to pitting nazis against Russia. Any other logic or consideration is immediately hurled out of the window.

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[–] Anatolianin@lemmygrad.ml 53 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Ukrainians celebrating lmao

[–] Trudge@lemmygrad.ml 43 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 35 points 9 months 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.

[–] Ciel@lemmygrad.ml 40 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] lil_tank@lemmygrad.ml 25 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Can we even say the one and only ukrain w?

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[–] Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml 39 points 9 months ago

I was confused for a second, then remembered he allegedly supported the Crimea affair

[–] Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml 50 points 9 months ago

Hoo boy, brace yourself

[–] ComradeChairmanKGB@lemmygrad.ml 47 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Goodbye Mr navalny and hello Mr guaido

[–] DankZedong@lemmygrad.ml 43 points 9 months ago (1 children)
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[–] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 42 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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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[–] Mzuark@lemmygrad.ml 42 points 9 months 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?

[–] EuthanatosMurderhobo@lemmygrad.ml 42 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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!

[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 21 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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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[–] DankZedong@lemmygrad.ml 40 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months 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.

[–] rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml 40 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months 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

[–] Kirbywithwhip1987@lemmygrad.ml 32 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

What a coincidence, just yesterday I saw some idiots in comments on r*ddit mentioning him, which was also posted here and just today we get yet another gender-neutral bathroom in Russia!

[–] StalinForTime@hexbear.net 32 points 9 months 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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[–] SpaceDogs@lemmygrad.ml 31 points 9 months ago (10 children)

Trudeau being annoying about this, what else is new:

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 34 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Canadians and supporting fascism, what's a more iconic North American Duo

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 25 points 9 months ago

Obviously the Biden administration and supporting fascism lmao

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 23 points 9 months ago

Where was this outrage when Evo Morales or Lula were ousted? Oh that's right, he supported the fascists.

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[–] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 31 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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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[–] JoeDaRedTrooperYT@lemmygrad.ml 28 points 9 months ago

New gender inclusive bathroom

[–] Utter_Karate@hexbear.net 26 points 9 months 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.

[–] cwtshycwtsh@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 9 months ago
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