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BBC publishes puff piece about neo-nazis memior (hexbear.net)

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"I will spend the rest of my life in prison and die here," wrote Navalny in his upcoming posthumous memoir titled "Patriot", which this week had excerpts published in the new yorker

Patriot? Wow!

source https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj6eppg77geo

bbc article from 2021 about navalny being a fascist (but its complicated!) https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56181084

Amnesty International has stripped the Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny of his "prisoner of conscience" status after it says it was "bombarded" with complaints highlighting xenophobic comments that he has made in the past and not renounced.

newyorker article from 2021 about navalny being a fascist (but its so complicated!) https://archive.md/EOb48

According to Volkov, Navalny now regrets making the 2007 video in which he advocated for deporting Central Asian migrants, but he has not deleted it from YouTube “because it’s a historical fact.”

obviously I shouldnt be surprised about this kind of thing, especially from publications that were around to talk about sHitler caring about germany or whatever

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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 31 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I've always detested the way the West painted Navalny as if he's the most prominent opposition in Russia when the communist party is the largest opposition party. We might have our problems with it but it's real.

Also Navalny supported Crimean referendum on being part of Russia and Donbas too. He argued westerners were being racist to russians. The liberals forget about all this under the banner of "he has to do that to remain popular" because he was still willing to be a western puppet.

[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 7 points 5 months ago

I've always detested the way the West painted Navalny as if he's the most prominent opposition in Russia when the communist party is the largest opposition party. We might have our problems with it but it's real.

Gennady Zyuganov was literally the only candidate to contest a run-off election in Russia and almost beat Yeltsin, had it not been for Western interference.

By early 1996, Yeltsin's public approval was so poor that he was polling at fifth place among presidential candidates, with only 8 percent support, while CPRF leader Gennady Zyuganov was in the lead with 21 percent support. When Zyuganov showed up at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in February 1996, many Western leaders and the international media were eager to see him, and treated him with regards to believing that he would likely be the next president of Russia.