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aroacemisha · 9 months ago

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So. Navalny is dead.

My condolences to his wife and children. And may those influenced by his work carry on the fight for a better Russia.

Even if he wasn't perfect, he was an important voice in the Russian opposition movement and gave hope to many, and his imprisonment, as well as his treatment while in prison, was completely unjust.

Rest in peace.

#misha's text posts #misha's leftie thoughts #i've vaguely heard of it a couple days ago but now that i've been fully catching up it's finally setting in #and it actually made me cry. damn.#i didn't even follow his work that much but hearing some of it from time to time definitely played a role in my political journey #it's those early seeds of 'but what if we tried something else?' back before i even got into politics #when i was only 14 years old in 2018 and i was wondering what a navalny presidency would be like #before i had any understanding of the current system or how awful said system and You Know Who is #just the thought that perhaps there is an alternative we could try... or at least that there should be #and -of course- navalny exposed corruption in the government. and i heard about that #another piece of information for me to keep in the back of my mind #and just him being an actual real critic openly challenging the government even though it put him at risk. that mattered

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