#navalny

[nowforthefunpart]

No Kings and Navalny

Tomorrow is the No Kings protest at the state capitol building and come hell or high water I plan to go. Living in the Twin Cities, we have experienced first hand what it's like when an authoritarian wannabe president/administration decides to use the power of the state to intimidate and terrorize not just immigrants, but the entire population.

While there was never any doubt about my attendance tomorrow, I also just finished this book:

I remember when Navalny was murdered by the Russian government, and I remember vividly his wife, Yulia, accepting some prize for him the day of or day after his murder. I remember thinking she was made of steel or something because, first of all, she showed up, and secondly spoke so resolutely and clearly and with determination, but she didn't break down. I don't know why that stuck with me, but it did.

Now that I've read the book, I understand so much more about him, about his wife and about how he fought the Russian authoritarian government. We are not like Russia yet .... yet ... but as I read his story of what happened to him, some of the tactics that government uses hit uncomfortably close to home.

I found this book disturbing, sometimes funny (he's got a sense of humor!) and to be a warning to us not to normalize the truly aberrant behavior of this administration. I'll think of him tomorrow when I'm at the protest, expressing my deep love of my country while peacefully calling out the tactics and lawlessness of this administration.

[maaarine]

Navalny (Daniel Roher, 2022)

[afranse]

Зачем ты убил Навального,

Старенький уркаган?

Считает мир криминальный,

Что у тебя талант.

Недаром убит был Навальный,

Недаром убит был Немцов,

К журналистам убитым повально

Никто не найдёт концов.

И сотни тысяч убитых

В окопах с названием Донбасс.

Священник читает молитву.

Жидеет рабочий класс.

Тебе убивать нравится,

Старенький уркаган.

Убийства встречаешь, как праздники -

Вот твой сатанинский талант,

Которым с народом делишься.

И новое мясо в окоп -

Уговоришь за денюжки

Свой недалёкий сброд.

Зачем ты убил Навального,

Старенький уркаган?

Считает мир криминальный,

Что у тебя талант.

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Why did you kill Navalny,

Kremlin old felon?

The criminal world believes

That you have a mobster talent.

It wasn't for nothing that Navalny was killed,

It wasn't for nothing that Nemtsov was killed,

And the journalists killed en masse

No one will find the culprits.

And hundreds of thousands killed

In the trenches called Donbas.

A priest reads a prayer.

The working class is dwindling.

You enjoy murders,

Kremlin old criminal.

Celebrating murders like holidays -

That's your satanic talent,

Which you share with your people.

And new cannon fodder for the trenches,

You'll persuade for money,

Your simple-minded rabble.

Why did you kill Navalny,

Kremlin old felon?

The criminal world believes

That you have a mobster talent.

[daysofbeingwild1990]

navalny was killed by putin. shut the fuck up about his politics or character for now, shut the fuck up even more if you're not living in Russia or don't know anything about the repressions that putin's government brings onto innocent people fucking CONSTANTLY, not to mention trying to kill them. navalny was a political prisoner and was killed while being imprisoned for NOT breaking any law

[khodorkovskaya]

[kiimaisetmuumipeikot]

Uutisväsymyslaakson tarinoita:

Manipuloitavissa sekä oikeaan, väärään että mihin tahansa suuntaan.

[asgoodeasgold]

(🔊 on) Patriot, Alexei Navalny's memoir, is available as an audiobook read by Matthew Goode.

A stunning and poignant account beautifully narrated 🧡

Here is a little extract - Alexei wakes up from a coma after having been poisoned and he remembers his wife pulling him through.

"But I will tell you what I do remember. Perhaps, actually, it can’t even be properly described as a remembering. It is more a collection of my very first sensations and emotions. It was so important to me, though, that it is now forever imprinted in my brain. I am lying there. I have already been brought out of the coma, but can’t recognize anybody and don’t understand what is happening. I can’t speak and don’t know what speaking is. My sole pastime is to be waiting for Her to come. Who She is I am uncertain. Neither do I even know what She looks like. If I manage to make out something with my unfocusing eyes, I’m unable to remember the picture. But She is different, that much is clear to me. So I just lie there and wait for Her. She comes and is the main person in the room. She straightens my pillow and makes it very comfortable. She doesn’t have a low, sympathizing voice but speaks cheerfully and laughs. She is telling me something. When She is near, my idiotic hallucinations retreat. It feels very good when She is there. Then She goes away and I feel sad, and wait for Her again. I don’t for a moment doubt there is a scientific explanation for this. Like, you know, I was apprehending the tone of my wife’s voice, my brain secreted dopamine, and I began to feel better. Each visit became literally therapeutic, and the effect of waiting for her enhanced the dopamine reinforcement. But no matter how impressive the scientific and medical explanation sounds, I now know for sure, simply from my own experience, that love heals and brings you back to life. Yulia, you saved me, and may this be included in the neurobiology textbooks."

This made me cry hot tears 🥺🥺

The audiobook is available on several platforms. More info ➡️ https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/445409/patriot-by-navalny-alexei/9781529943788

📷 My edit from Audible audiobook (Penguin Books). MG photograph by Uli Webber.

[bdsmchan]

Alexei Navalny was killed by Putin.