Putin critic Alexei Navalny dies in Arctic Circle jail, says Russia
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Jailed Russian politician Alexei Navalny has died in a penal colony, the country's prison service says.

Some sources suggest he was taking a walk and suddenly fell to the ground. Very mysterious. Guess they ran out of windows.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
      20•1 year ago

      Given what the west is backing in Gaza, I really get why westerners are so upset that a white nationalist is dead.

          • Fushuan [he/him]English
            1•1 year ago

            I would like a choice tbh. You think the alternative is not a racist bigot either? It would be nice if putins political adversaries didn’t die in an arctic prison for what I recall when he was recalled to Russia was some fraud with is company or whatever. And they had to threaten him with his wife to get him back. The moment he stepped how foot on Russia, prison and torture. And now he dies, for what was announced as fraud. Yeah right.

            • @Omega_Haxors@lemmy.mlEnglish
              2•1 year ago

              Russia is a broken nation where ruthlessness is required to survive, to the point where someone who literally worked with the US to end communism is the country’s biggest and only chance of getting it back. If you watched the Putin interview yes he was willing to chum it up with Cucker Tarlson, but he also talked fondly of killing nazis, a point that really got under the white nationalist’s skin.

              My point is, regardless of the situation you shouldn’t be siding with nazis.

        • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
          11•1 year ago

          I said that because Navalny is a fascist scumbag and a white supremacist. If that’s the sort of people you support then you really need to check your morals.

          • @Turbo@lemmy.ml
            3•1 year ago

            Um… I doubt a pos would essentially give his life to speak out against the dictator.

            Don’t know enough but he doesn’t seem like the kind of prick that would invade Ukraine

            • d-RLY?
              7•1 year ago

              Even the Ukrainians have been cheering his death. He wasn’t pro-Ukraine, and they weren’t pro-him.

                • d-RLY?
                  1•1 year ago

                  The headspace of “anyone is better than Putin” also means that people that are worse are praised. Someone that openly calls Muslims “cockroaches” and extreme nationalism isn’t exactly “better” than Putin’s similar stances on the LGBTQIA+ communities. So it is very possible for Navalny to be worse if given the powers Putin currently has. The real point is that it isn’t a good thing to blindly praise/support everyone that openly attacks Putin as some “hero of freedom” or something like that.

      • @PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml
        5•1 year ago

        He also misspelled Navalny’s name, as OP also did (but the article didn’t), which is even more funny since it shows how much they do know about him and are just joining the yapping chorus of western propaganda.