Alexei Navalny

rze99

A very brave man.

DavidR

Another victim of Vlad the Poisoner. RIP. 

Philly_Q

Incredibly brave.  Anyone trying to oppose or stand up to Putin and the Russian state, in whatever way, is pretty much signing their own death warrant.  Navalny would have known he was never going to live to draw a pension, but he went ahead anyway.  RIP.

octatonic

All for something we take for granted.
The right to speak one's mind without fear.

Fingers657

Putin gets away with murder yet again.

LionAquaLooper

RIP. Much respect to him for standing up to Putin and his cronies. 

wesker123

Incredibly brave man. Not many left in this world I think.
Mostly just bullies.

VimFuego

Fingers657 said:

Putin gets away with murder yet again.

Stalin is famous for saying 1 death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic. It seems putin is intent on carrying out statistics, not tragedies. Hopefully one day he'll face justice (along with so many peddlers of statistics) but I fear not.

stickyfiddle

I really have no words adequate for the guy. One of the bravest men of our time 

RIP

Brize

octatonic said:

All for something we take for granted.
The right to speak one's mind without fear.

Something that we used to take for granted.

DefaultM

There's a video of a Russian woman being arrested and taken away for standing in public with a sign that says 'Alexei Navalny died today' or similar.
What will happen to her? Will she be released or will she just 'disappear'?

Jfingers

The whole situation is both horrific and bizarre.

RIP Alexei Navalny.

octatonic

Brize said:

octatonic said:

All for something we take for granted.
The right to speak one's mind without fear.

Something that we used to take for granted.

I am thinking of it more and more.
To the point that I actually have an escape plan for getting out of Europe if things turn nasty.

I never thought that would be necessary but I'd be absolutely fucking useless in a war.

Brize

octatonic said:

Brize said:

octatonic said:

All for something we take for granted.
The right to speak one's mind without fear.

Something that we used to take for granted.

I am thinking of it more and more.
To the point that I actually have an escape plan for getting out of Europe if things turn nasty.

I never thought that would be necessary but I'd be absolutely fucking useless in a war.

Where would you go?

LionAquaLooper

DefaultM said:

There's a video of a Russian woman being arrested and taken away for standing in public with a sign that says 'Alexei Navalny died today' or similar.
What will happen to her? Will she be released or will she just 'disappear'?

She was brave as well. She basically staged a protest all by herself. 

I'd like to think she'll be released eventually with a warning akin to "if you care about your family, you'll behave from now on". 

octatonic

Brize said:

octatonic said:

Brize said:

octatonic said:

All for something we take for granted.
The right to speak one's mind without fear.

Something that we used to take for granted.

I am thinking of it more and more.
To the point that I actually have an escape plan for getting out of Europe if things turn nasty.

I never thought that would be necessary but I'd be absolutely fucking useless in a war.

Where would you go?

Back to Tasmania.
I was born there.

Philly_Q

octatonic said:

Brize said:

octatonic said:

All for something we take for granted.
The right to speak one's mind without fear.

Something that we used to take for granted.

I am thinking of it more and more.
To the point that I actually have an escape plan for getting out of Europe if things turn nasty.

I never thought that would be necessary but I'd be absolutely fucking useless in a war.

I know it's a terrible thing to say but I hope I'm right in the path of the first Russian nuclear warhead, if it comes to that.  I'm not strong enough to live like those poor people in Ukraine and Gaza.  I'd rather just be wiped out of existence, like I was never there.

jdgm

R.I.P. Alexei Navalny.  

maw4neu

Yet another good man silenced by evil . .  Alexei Navalny, may you rest in peace . . 

ICBM

The courage he had is almost beyond belief. To voluntarily return to a country where he knew imprisonment, probably mistreatment and quite likely death would be the result, with little or no prospect of success in what he was trying to achieve, is something most of us probably can’t understand or imagine doing, even if it’s true that his family in Russia were threatened if he didn’t.

He said himself that his prison sentence was just a number - it was a life sentence, either that of Putin’s regime or his own, and he won’t have been surprised when they killed him.

One day he will be revered as a national hero in Russia.

RIP