Excerpts from Russian opposition leader Navalny's memoir show he knew he would die in prison
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Alexei Navalny was President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest and most prominent foe and relentlessly campaigned against official corruption in Russia.

Excerpts of a memoir written by late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny revealed he believed he would die in prison.

The New Yorker magazine published the excerpts Friday in anticipation of the release of “Patriot” on Oct. 22.

Navalny was President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest and most prominent foe and relentlessly campaigned against official corruption in Russia. He died in a remote Arctic prison in February while serving a 19-year sentence on several charges, including running an extremist group, which he said were politically motivated.

  • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
    26·
    3 months ago

    Jesus was forced down everyone’s throat regardless of what you believe; so I fail to see the comparison.

    There has to have been a better way; Russia is already too lousy w needless & pointless deaths.

    • girlfreddy@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      32·
      3 months ago

      2000 years ago he died for our sins on a cross. Why didn’t his story die with him? Because his death made him a martyr, and martyrs live forever.

      The same will happen with Navalny and his ideology.

        • girlfreddy@lemmy.caOPEnglish
          41·
          3 months ago

          The story still stands. If it didn’t you wouldn’t even recognize Jesus’ name.

          • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
            21·
            3 months ago

            they’re right, jesus was a apocryphal story forced down everyone’s throat and your defense paints navalny as a self-important martyr figure and google paints him as a xenophobic homophobe w a martr complex; whatever chance you had to edify the uninformed was lost in this bizarre jesus-christo-stupidity thing you decided to wrap into navalny’s behavior.