UA candle lit the Putinian darkness just a little. We turned it off.
In the official statement it is ” dead “. Between ” he is dead “ And “we killed him”, there is a country difference. My country no longer exists. A Russia that eliminates its best sons in this way cannot be a humane country. This bandit regime has no place in the land of men. This state which calls itself the Russian Federation and which brings death and evil to the whole world and to its own population must simply not exist.
They could not not kill Navalny. A dictatorship presupposes the silence of the people and general joy at the slightest word from the leader. The regime saw a threat in this man whom it had tried to force to keep silent by putting him in prison for more than twenty years. They had tried to poison him, in vain. This time they finished him off.
Officially, in Russia, the death penalty does not exist. It exists, we see it, and this is only the beginning. This criminal power indifferently kills Ukrainians and its own youth, mobilized and sent to the butchery, or its political prisoners. The Red Wheel that Solzhenitsyn spoke of has started again.
Now, after two years of massacres in Ukraine, with an opposition completely destroyed in Russia, it is difficult to imagine that just a few years ago, Navalny was able to participate in the presidential race, which he had was able to campaign across the country. Which president would he have been? I don’t know. Maybe a wonderful president, maybe a mediocre one. The only way to verify this would have been through free elections which he would have won. But free elections require free citizens. Democracy begins when people feel like citizens. Democracy begins with human dignity. How does the majority of the Russian population feel?
Contagious faith
I will never forget how, during an election campaign meeting in a provincial Russian town, a person came up to Navalny after his speech and said: “Alexei, I like what you say and how you say it, I like you. But become president first, and then I will vote for you. »
Everyone wonders why he returned to Russia, when he probably knew he was going to be put in prison. Yes, he knew it. He was a wrestler. A fighter. He knew he had to see it through to the end. But he was not making a free sacrifice, he was not going to torture, he was going towards victory. He believed in his victory, and his faith was contagious, those close to him and those not close to him believed in it. In Russia, those who overthrew the regime always began as its prisoners. This was the case for the revolution of 1917, then at the end of Soviet power. The Soviet regime, which seemed unshakable, fell under the books of the former prisoner Solzhenitsyn. Prison experience is always a plus for a Russian politician: someone who has been in prison will always be close to “mass of voters”whose whole life is imbued with ” culture “ penitentiary.
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