Police officers detain a woman who laid flowers for Alexei Navalny at the Memorial to Victims of Political Repression in St. Petersburg, Russia on Friday, Feb. 16, 2024.

Russian authorities say that Alexei Navalny, the fiercest foe of Russian President Vladimir Putin who crusaded against official corruption and staged massive anti-Kremlin protests, died in prison. He was 47. (AP Photo)

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  • nekandro@lemmy.ml
    1737·
    9 months ago

    In a 2007 pro-gun rights video, Navalny presents himself as a “certified nationalist” who wants to exterminate “flies and cockroaches” – while bearded Muslim men appear in cutaways. He whips out a gun and shoots an actor wearing a keffiyeh who tried to “attack” him.

    Yeah maybe overt Russian white nationalists shouldn’t be revered and their supporters shouldn’t be given the right to freedom of expression.

    • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
      227·
      9 months ago

      Yeah, not like he changed his tune at all since fucking 07.

      Hey tell me about how invading a soverign country is totally cool and OK to do.

      • nekandro@lemmy.ml
        1119·
        9 months ago

        Oh great, so he’s a covert Russian white nationalist who only wants to exterminate Muslims in secret.

        Wait…

          • _cnt0
            1·
            9 months ago

            There being a bigger asshole doesn’t make an asshole a saint. I don’t buy Navalny’s 180 on his nationalist, islamophobe, and homophobe stances. And no liberal Russian I know (quite a few) does either. The western narrative of “Putin bad, Navalny against Putin, so Navalny good” is really strange. Given the chance Navalny could have been the next Hitler. Have you ever watched/listened to the stuff that guy said?

    • quantumfoam@lemmy.world
      134·
      9 months ago

      Im not sure how i feel about that, and this might be an unpopular take, but does everyone need an absolutely untarnished past to be able to be recognized for something? Or can we just accept that while not a perfect person, he is a pretty decent figurehead for anti-putinism?

    • Tinidril@midwest.socialEnglish
      146·
      9 months ago

      If Biden sent Seal Team 6 after Trump, that would be a serious problem, and not because I revere Trump.

    • SeaJ@lemm.ee
      76·
      9 months ago

      He had recognized how wrong he was quite a while ago.

    • UmeU@lemmy.world
      22·
      9 months ago

      White nationalism shouldn’t be revered, but the right to freedom of expression should be.

      The right for me to swing my fist ends where your chin begins.