Andre Vltchek, a Russian-born American journalist, was found dead in his car in Istanbul on Tuesday. Police are treating the circumstances around his death as...

Rest in peace Andre Vltchek

  • Bread_In_Baltimore [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Was he cringe or was he based

    Edit: it appears he was unfathomably based. RIP to a real one

    • Yun [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      He seemed to be as based as a journalist could possibly be:

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre_Vltchek#Publications

      Also from this interview https://youtu.be/7CnSXBOrHMc :

      (6:46)

      I think that Western Imperialism is actually the only problem that this planet has

      Responding to whether doing the work he does is worthwhile (18:18):

      Look, the worst thing that can happen to you is that you will die. I'm 56, and I lived maybe 15, 20 lifetimes already and I enjoyed my life tremendously. So I would love to live here until 90 or something but I'm not gonna sit down and shut up. I love this struggle. If I would sit down, you know my eye got injured in Borneo, I couldn't see for three days, [...], but I already began working because if I sit down and I do nothing, I feel guilty, I feel horrible. Because it's a responsibility. And Che Guevara actually, and Cuban revolutionaries, they knew perfectly well what it is, and they said that you know, if you work for the revolution, if you struggle for the people, it should not be worn as some kind of a medal, it is just duty that you are performing, it's nothing else.

    • Nakoichi [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      Was debunking anti-china stuff and suspiciously died in a NATO aligned country, probably just a coincidence...

    • CommCat [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      he was a staunch anti-imperialist, a "tankie" way before it became an anarchy-lib buzzword. He defends the DPRK, does it get more "tankie" than that?