If you wanna read my response:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AntifascistsofReddit/comments/l6w37t/alexi_navalni/glo5j8y?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

  • keki_ya [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    I get where you are coming from, but I just don’t see why Navalny would stop the suffering of tens of millions of Russians. He’s western-aligned, a nationalist, and a capitalist. He would just be another neoliberal bastard who sells out his country for money. He claims to be anti-corruption and pro-democracy, but those two things don’t suddenly improve the lives of tens of millions of people.

    But, since you are actually Russian, you probably understand the situation much better than me, so I could be completely wrong. I don’t want to speak as if I know the political climate in Russia more than an actual Russian

    • throwaway [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      i in turn see where people criticizing navalny on chapo are coming from, but i suspect that most people's knowledge of the situation in russia is distorted, at least partially, in particular, i don't think people realize how much of a capitalist country russia actually is (or at least the class disparity present here), or the level of corruption that is present here: the ruling class of billionaires (with a little bit of millionaires sprinkled in the lower positions), who got rich in the chaotic and unlawful privatization of the 90s, who completely control the press, media, judicial system, who repress people for their political views, who remove funding from welfare programs... people's life expectancy, income, happiness, access to welfare are consistently falling

      this is basically ronald raegan and margaret thratcher on steroids with a sprinkle of remnants of the soviet union, in the sense that russia's ruling class doesn't even need to pretend that they're trying to serve it's people..