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[photo] Police officers detain a woman who laid flowers for Alexei Navalny in St. Petersburg
(lemmy.world)
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)
Via: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1avnej3/police_officers_detain_a_woman_who_laid_flowers/
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.
This dude believes it: https://www.rightsinrussia.org/aleksandr-verkhovsky/
Or is he a nazi as well?
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?
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.
He called Muslims cockroaches and performed a commercial shooting a man in brownface wearing a cockroach costume with a gun. I don't know what can convince you how much of a depraved and fucked up man he is. I don't know if this link is going to work but here's footage of him being interviewed at a nazi march. it'll probably try to get you to download the video.
I do not know how you can sit here and try to convince me that this is a good man worth mourning. He was a sick man.
Edit: also here's the cockroach video, actually up on YouTube still https://youtu.be/hT0tCSaWZ9Q?si=h0jC4oe4XiT4yZ_B