Alexei Navalny dead

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Perhaps the greatest lesson there is in history is than human nature does not change from place to place and from time to time. People are the same.

I take it you’ve never been to Hereford.

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

Perhaps the greatest lesson there is in history is than human nature does not change from place to place and from time to time. People are the same.

The German public in the 1930s, the British in the 1940s, the Russians in the 2020s are all the same people, no more or less cowards than each other.

I think the Russians are more cowards as they have been conditioned to be it. IE To be dictated to. They have never had the freedoms we in the west have.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

I think the Russians are more cowards as they have been conditioned to be it. IE To be dictated to. They have never had the freedoms we in the west have.

Cowards?

The country of Solzhenitsyn, Sakharov, Navalny?

Not sure you've thought this through.

 

[mackenzie]

I think it's incredibly difficult for anyone who doesn't live in Russia to understand what it must be like to live under that kind of regime.

I don't think the Russian people are cowards, far from it. Just horribly oppressed and bullied.

 

[Don Karleone]

Was he a racist?

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

Cowards?

The country of Solzhenitsyn, Sakharov, Navalny?

Not sure you've thought this through.

The majority are undoubtedly.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

The majority are undoubtedly.

Easy for you to write on the Internet. Not so easy to act in a murderous controlling dictatorship.

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

Easy for you to write on the Internet. Not so easy to act in a murderous controlling dictatorship.

We will have to agree to dissagree, the vast majority Ukrainians on the other hand seem to be standing up to the murderous controlling dictatorship.

 

[robbieh]

Think people need to get off their high horse about Russia. The British have invaded loads of countries in their time. Large parts of Africa, the far East and we weren't doing it for the natives' benefit.

 

[East Level 2]

Was he a racist?

He has been accused of supporting some nationalist aims which could be considered as racist. Amnesty stripped him of "prisoner of conscience" status a few years ago for this reason. Google Alexei Navalny racist for more info.
There was a fair bit of racism in Ukraine before the Russian invasion but that has been overlooked by those more interested in criticising Putin's aims of an expanded Russia, and I agree with that to some degree.