• GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.social
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    9 months ago

    He’s absolutely not Vladimir Putin but let’s not hail him as this shining beacon of truth just because he’s a martyr. He was still a Russia first nationalist that supported the Russians during the Russo-Georgian war and was vocally supportive of the annexation of Crimea. He even made a youtube video where he played a pest control specialist and explains how to rid themselves of immigrants while comparing them to fleas and cockroaches. In the video he is attacked by a figure presumed to be one of the muslim immigrants he is calling to be exterminated and shoots them twice in the chest.

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      9 months ago

      And yet would still be an improvement on the psychopath currently in the presidents office. crazy ain’t it?

      • GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.social
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        9 months ago

        100%

        I understand that better needs to not be the enemy of perfect, but I don’t want people to think that Navalny was going to be some savior of Russia like they seem to. He was just an island of semi-sanity in an ocean of diarrhea.

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      9 months ago

      It’s not “muslim immigrant”. It’s Shamil Basayev, a former Ichkerian guerilla fighter (which short existence was fueled largely by kidnappings and slave trade), who later turned terrorist and is directly responsible for numerous bombings and hostage crisises.

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      9 months ago

      Didn’t your boss explode on his plane? I guess Simonyan is your new boss.

      For those who don’t understand what happened here’s short version: he was opposing annexation back in 2014 when it started, and in video he talks not about immigrants(because they did not immigrate, Russia did. Twice.), but about certain Russian citizens - Chechen mafia.