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.

Oh shit they've got him.

  • Lemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them]
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    9 months ago

    he's just as fash as a lot of folks who we critically support due to their relation to the West, like Lukashenko and Assad.

    Dayum, why you roastin' them like that? I understand why Putin's fash, but why them too?

    • aaro [they/them, she/her]
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      9 months ago

      “The Jews managed to force the world to remember the Holocaust,” Lukashenko declared. “The entire world grovels before them and gives in to them. They are afraid to say a single word out of place.”

      “The history of Germany is a copy of the history of Belarus. Germany was raised from ruins thanks to firm authority and not everything connected with that well-known figure Hitler was bad. German order evolved over the centuries and attained its peak under Hitler. This corresponds with our understanding of a presidential republic and the role of a president in it,” Lukashenko said in 1995, perhaps anticipating that he would still be in power more than a quarter of century later.

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      I might actually be flat-out wrong about Assad tho, maybe Erdogan is a better example

      • plinky [he/him]
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        9 months ago

        Nah assad recently decided to do "was it really 6 millions" shit. Luka is just an idiot, i always see this quote from the 90s, but not something weird after, idk why (did he get better or just start masking)

        • Lemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them]
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          9 months ago

          My impression of Assad was that the West, according to him, uses Hitler and the killed Jews as a rationale to crush any foreign policy enemies who they compare to the former and its atrocities....