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[photo] Police officers detain a woman who laid flowers for Alexei Navalny in St. Petersburg (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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)

https://newsroom.ap.org/editorial-photos-videos/detail?itemid=4d98d9afaf84439aa6c35cc824bd6dfc&mediatype=photo

Via: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1avnej3/police_officers_detain_a_woman_who_laid_flowers/

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[–] [email protected] 108 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Wait but Tucker Carlson told us Russia was an amazing place, better than America!

[–] [email protected] 37 points 6 months ago

Let this fucker fade away into obscurity, please.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago

That guy can stay there if he likes it so much.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago

Go to jail if you speak out against the president, BUT, there is a nice chandelier in a subway station.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

Lol, that bit where he praised their grocery store prices was insane. The average American makes over 300% what the average Russian makes in terms of salary.

That guy has dogshit for brains.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Why even have a memorial if you can't visit it and pay respects?

[–] [email protected] 59 points 6 months ago

The Navalny memorial at the Wall of Grief is makeshift.

People are paying tribute to him there because the wall is a monument to Stalin era political persecution and Putin is basically doing the same shit.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago

As a honeypot to arrest dissenters just like they're doing.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

I'm not even sure how to define how self-satirical it is that they made a monument to the political victims of repression, which is now where they authorize any kind of demonstration if one is ever allowed, and it's also the spot where they arrest everyone. It's straight out of a joke.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's nice to see that despite our many differences, some thing unite all of us.

ACAB no matter where you live.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm sure the man that regularly participated in neo-nazi marches, advocated to strip non-ethnic Russians of their Russian citizenship, and called muslim Chechens cockroaches is worth celebrating.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Life-improving protip for us all (probably them too): Settings -> Blocks -> Block instance -> lemmygrad.ml.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

What the fuck is your problem? Instead of actually addressing what I said you just want to start getting transphobic? How about this: would you object to the arrest of the neo-nazis at Charlottesville? I don't understand what you think is redeemable about this man, all nazis deserve death. We fought a war over this, probably the biggest one yet.

Edit: Oh nice, you're just gonna edit your comment after claiming that every person with pronouns in their name has shitty opinions. If you're gonna be a transphobic dick at least say it with your whole chest.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Edit: Oh nice, you’re just gonna edit your comment after claiming that every person with pronouns in their name has shitty opinions. If you’re gonna be a transphobic dick at least say it with your whole chest.

You think it's a bad thing that I recognized I said something shitty and edited it away?

I don’t understand what you think is redeemable about this man, all nazis deserve death.

Perhaps this will answer your question:

Beginning in the late 2000s, Navalny used racial slurs when describing ethnic Georgians, called for the deportation of Muslim migrant workers and delivered speeches at Russian Marches, annual rallies of far-right nationalists, white supremacists and neo-Nazis.

“It was a long time ago,” Alexander Verkhovsky, head of the Moscow-based Sova hate crimes monitor, told Al Jazeera in 2021, describing Navalny as “a different man now”.

From https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/16/obit-navalny-putins-archenemy-and-anti-corruption-champion

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I think it's a bad thing that you covered it up instead of owning up to it and apologizing for that fucked up thing you said.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Fair enough. I apologize for the fucked up thing I said which was to note that people with gender info in their usernames tend to have opinions that are deeply wrong to me in ways unrelated to gender identity.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You expect me to believe that the man that went to a well-known neo-nazi march for 4 consecutive years in the 2010's just got his shit together and decided to stop being a nazi while still backing the nationalist party in Russia? He's not even the most electable candidate against Putin which makes this whole bandwagon everyone's on even more ridiculous, the second most popular party in Russia is the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia. But everyone keeps trying to posture this supposedly ex-nazi as the last opponent Putin has ever had. It's ridiculous and not based in reality.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This dude believes it: https://www.rightsinrussia.org/aleksandr-verkhovsky/

Or is he a nazi as well?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I don't know what you expect me to do here, start sucking this random dude's dick? I don't care about his opinion. Living in rural America I've seen plenty of nazis and Navalny is no different, especially when he's made his career on advocating for the genocide of muslims in his country. Would you accept the apology of the Grand Wizard of the KKK and just believe he changed his ways because some guy vouched for him?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I get that real actual nazis are horrible and need to be put down, but I feel like you're exaggerating both the severity of Navalny's political positions and downplaying Verkhovsky's position by quite a bit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

He called Muslims cockroaches and performed a commercial shooting a man in brownface wearing a cockroach costume with a gun. I don't know what can convince you how much of a depraved and fucked up man he is. I don't know if this link is going to work but here's footage of him being interviewed at a nazi march. it'll probably try to get you to download the video.

I do not know how you can sit here and try to convince me that this is a good man worth mourning. He was a sick man.

Edit: also here's the cockroach video, actually up on YouTube still https://youtu.be/hT0tCSaWZ9Q?si=h0jC4oe4XiT4yZ_B

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Ya booiiiisss we reddit now!!!!! EDIT: nevermind it's just a repost of a reddit thread. Please don't pollute lemmy with reddit reposts. I quit that shithole site because of crappy posts like this. If it feels like it belongs on the front page of reddit, just post it on reddit instead. (or lemmy world)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

They’ve arrested like 400 ppl across 30 cities, so far