A prominent critic of President Vladimir Putin, Navalny, 47, spent his final months behind bars as the Russian leader reshaped the country to rally behind his war in Ukraine.
Russian fascist with well documented association with the neo-Nazis in the early 2000s then turned into a pro-Western liberal who opposes Putin.
Edit: 2011 NY Times profile about Navalny (CW: racism):
Liberals, meanwhile, have deep reservations about him, because he espouses Russian nationalist views. He has appeared as a speaker alongside neo-Nazis and skinheads, and once starred in a video that compares dark-skinned Caucasus militants to cockroaches. While cockroaches can be killed with a slipper, he says that in the case of humans, “I recommend a pistol.”
He was stupid enough to believe all the "Putin 29 Days from Total Defeat! Economy in Shambles! Russia Cries for Blogger to Lead Them!" YouTube front-page clickbait.
He tried to run a 99% Hitler campaign when he's still 100% Hitler. Hopefully he's looking up at me right now and saying "Wow, I wish I was as smart as Happybadger. He wouldn't do that. He would have just moved to Germany and become a grifter."
I have barely been able to find anything out about the guy besides the fact that he led an anti-immigrant hate march in 2006 and has apparently "moved away from right wing politics in recent years to become a prominent critic of Putin, while declining to renounce his previous political affiliations" real milquetoast reporting all round.
Western media whitewashed him super hard after they hallowed him as "opposition leader" and "Putin's real opponent" while in reality he was not only always irrelevant but was an open neonazi of the kind even most western regimes pack into jail or kick out just in case. Or used to pack before Ukraine war made everyting up to 99% Hitler acceptable.
Anyone have a tldr about the guy? Article says nothing about him.
Russian fascist with well documented association with the neo-Nazis in the early 2000s then turned into a pro-Western liberal who opposes Putin.
Edit: 2011 NY Times profile about Navalny (CW: racism):
crucially a video that is still on his personal channel
lol he was proud of what he said
At least a cockroach is smart enough to require a slipper. What do you call the insect that voluntarily walks into a trap?
A fucking fruitfly... that being said, why we blaming him for his death?
I blame him for voluntarily going back. Who else would be to blame beyond right-wing infighting?
He was stupid enough to believe all the "Putin 29 Days from Total Defeat! Economy in Shambles! Russia Cries for Blogger to Lead Them!" YouTube front-page clickbait.
He tried to run a 99% Hitler campaign when he's still 100% Hitler. Hopefully he's looking up at me right now and saying "Wow, I wish I was as smart as Happybadger. He wouldn't do that. He would have just moved to Germany and become a grifter."
I have barely been able to find anything out about the guy besides the fact that he led an anti-immigrant hate march in 2006 and has apparently "moved away from right wing politics in recent years to become a prominent critic of Putin, while declining to renounce his previous political affiliations" real milquetoast reporting all round.
Just another Nazi supported by the West.
Western media whitewashed him super hard after they hallowed him as "opposition leader" and "Putin's real opponent" while in reality he was not only always irrelevant but was an open neonazi of the kind even most western regimes pack into jail or kick out just in case. Or used to pack before Ukraine war made everyting up to 99% Hitler acceptable.
heh Canada was just giving a standing ovation to a Nazi SS soldier before the scandal was overshadowed by October 7th Hamas attack on the settlers.
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What a weird way of saying that he hasn't moved away from fascism.
His wikipedia bio is funny, because of how much all his views "have evolved" from hardcore nationalist fascism, to platitudes about social issues.