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BBC publishes puff piece about neo-nazis memior (hexbear.net)
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"I will spend the rest of my life in prison and die here," wrote Navalny in his upcoming posthumous memoir titled "Patriot", which this week had excerpts published in the new yorker

Patriot? Wow!

source https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj6eppg77geo

bbc article from 2021 about navalny being a fascist (but its complicated!) https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56181084

Amnesty International has stripped the Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny of his "prisoner of conscience" status after it says it was "bombarded" with complaints highlighting xenophobic comments that he has made in the past and not renounced.

newyorker article from 2021 about navalny being a fascist (but its so complicated!) https://archive.md/EOb48

According to Volkov, Navalny now regrets making the 2007 video in which he advocated for deporting Central Asian migrants, but he has not deleted it from YouTube “because it’s a historical fact.”

obviously I shouldnt be surprised about this kind of thing, especially from publications that were around to talk about sHitler caring about germany or whatever

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[–] TechnoUnionTypeBeat@hexbear.net 38 points 2 years ago (2 children)

If he expected to die in prison why the fuck did he fly back to Russia

He could've just stayed away and raked in the Guaido grift money

[–] EllenKelly@hexbear.net 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The cia probably told him to sit tight while they organise some cowboy shit

[–] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 years ago

He probably wanted to martyr himself

[–] WeedReference420@hexbear.net 34 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Redditors getting super emotional about him watching Rick and Morty on the plane back to Russia lives in my head rent free

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 31 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've always detested the way the West painted Navalny as if he's the most prominent opposition in Russia when the communist party is the largest opposition party. We might have our problems with it but it's real.

Also Navalny supported Crimean referendum on being part of Russia and Donbas too. He argued westerners were being racist to russians. The liberals forget about all this under the banner of "he has to do that to remain popular" because he was still willing to be a western puppet.

[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

I've always detested the way the West painted Navalny as if he's the most prominent opposition in Russia when the communist party is the largest opposition party. We might have our problems with it but it's real.

Gennady Zyuganov was literally the only candidate to contest a run-off election in Russia and almost beat Yeltsin, had it not been for Western interference.

By early 1996, Yeltsin's public approval was so poor that he was polling at fifth place among presidential candidates, with only 8 percent support, while CPRF leader Gennady Zyuganov was in the lead with 21 percent support. When Zyuganov showed up at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in February 1996, many Western leaders and the international media were eager to see him, and treated him with regards to believing that he would likely be the next president of Russia.

[–] EllenKelly@hexbear.net 26 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Content warning nazi shit,

Tap for spoilerbut here is a video where he compares muslims to cockroaches and calls for them to be shot

[–] EllenKelly@hexbear.net 21 points 2 years ago

Also you know how this cretin was forever wheeled out as the 'strongest opposition in a one party state!'? You can just look up election results, i know wikipedia is pretty lazy, and not great, but if anyone bothers to check the strongest opposition party is the CPRF

cprf are shit but whatever, you get my point, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA, etc

[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[–] Hexamerous@hexbear.net 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Amnesty International has stripped the Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny of his "prisoner of conscience" status after it says it was "bombarded" with complaints

No sympathy for this guy, but it's funny how amnesty have worthy and unworthy "prisoner of conscience" and not, you know, based on some firm principle no matter their political views. I guess they have to put a bunch of prisoners locked up in the west on the list too if that were the case.

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Vibes-based determination of political prisoners.

The vibes were bad when they got a lot of letters.

[–] Rod_Blagojevic@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Russia's most prominent opposition leader...

I'm pretty sure this is objectively untrue and communist opposition was always several times more prominent. It's Saturday morning. I don't feel like looking up the polling numbers.

[–] EllenKelly@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago

You are correct

[–] mathemachristian@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago

Most prominent opposition leader in the world.

The world:

international-community-1international-community-2

[–] robinnist@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Navalny a Neo-Nazi? Um it’s all Russian propaganda, and yes the propaganda is true but that’s beside the point!!

[–] josie@vegantheoryclub.org 6 points 2 years ago

The pesky ~~Jews~~ Russians controlling all the ~~media~~ online bots smh

[–] TheLastHero@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago

jagoff Russian government eats chumpz like him for breakfast. God the CIA wanted their new Solzhenitsyn so bad but no matter how much they pushed no one care about this loser

[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago

Was Navalny even relevant in Russia? Theres no way he was more popular than Gennady Zyuganov and Vladimir Zhirinovsky.

[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago

Honestly, though, Zhirinovsky was just as bad.

For the past 30 years all of Russian politics has been a spectrum of conservatism, jingoism, and "traditional values".