Anon Presents: The true Alexei Navalny

9 months ago

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The death of Alexei Navalny in a Russian prison camp on Feb. 16 2024, prompted a wave of eulogies from Western politicians and corrupt corporate paid media, Canada summoning the Russian ambassador in protest, and the immediate accusation that Russian President Vladimir Putin, had the Western-backed opposition leader killed. Such accusations are not true, the campaign to portray Navalny as some liberal hero of democracy and human rights. Perhaps reaching its height with the 2022 film Navalny, which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Which of course, is pure fiction, and a Western propaganda invention.

In reality, Navalny was a far nastier piece of work. He was actually, an ultra-right racist and Russian nationalist, who railed against immigration, and compared Muslims to “flies and cockroaches”. It is of no surprise to us, that Western liberals who view Donald Trump as a puppet of Putin, and the very incarnation of evil, are mourning this individual.

Navalny encouraged and welcomed support from the most extreme fringes of the far right. In 2007, Yabloko, Russia’s oldest liberal party, kicked out Navalny for his “nationalist views” and participation in the Russian March, an annual rally that brings together thousands of far-right Russian nationalists, monarchists, and white supremacists under the slogan, “Russia for ethnic Russians”. Shortly thereafter, Navalny released a video in which he presents himself as a “certified nationalist” who wants to exterminate “flies and cockroaches”, his rant intercut with shots of bearded Muslim men. In the video, Navalny then takes out a gun and shoots an actor wearing a keffiyeh, who is portrayed as trying to attack him.

As we have seen in every modern genocide, from the Nazi Holocaust, to the Rwandan genocide, to Israel’s current genocide on Gaza, comparing human beings to insects and vermin, is a hallmark of pro-genocide propaganda, paving the way for mass killing, by dehumanizing the targeted group.

Of course, at this point it is less surprising to see politicians, pundits, and celebrities, embrace racists and ultra-nationalists who espouse genocidal rhetoric. After all, endorsing Nazis and genocide, has always been the mainstream for Western imperialists. From aiding Neo-Nazis in Ukraine, Canada’s Parliament giving a standing ovation to a Waffen-SS veteran, to the ongoing support for Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. Nevertheless, when bourgeois politicians and the mainstream media in the West endorse Nazis, they feel obliged to try and gloss over the unsavory far-right views of these figures, and portray them as icons of “freedom” and liberal democracy.

In his remarks after Navalny’s death, U.S. President Joe Biden, said Putin was responsible for Navalny’s death and added, “People across Russia and around the world are mourning Navalny, because he was so many things that Putin was not. Joe Biden stated, He was brave. He was principled. He was dedicated to building a Russia where the rule of law existed, and where it applied to everybody.” This is the kind of response we expect from the nominal head of U.S. imperialism, which has historically draped its predatory policies in the rhetoric of “freedom” and “democracy,” and sought to sanitize unsavory allies such as Navalny, by portraying them as champions of these values, facts be damned.

All the same, the fawning tributes to Navalny by reformist politicians and celebrities, beggar belief in their willful disregard for this man’s racist, far-right politics. Instead, they adhere to the bourgeoisie’s standard rubric, by which those who support the interests of U.S. imperialism, are hailed as champions of “freedom”, while those who oppose the interests of U.S. imperialism, are vilified.

Contrary to what Joe Biden would have us believe, the mere fact of being Russian and opposing Vladimir Putin, does not make someone an icon of freedom. U.S. imperialism and its allies, have a long track record of funding far-right forces abroad as proxies. To cite one obvious example, in the 1980s, the United States armed and funded the Afghan Mujaheddin, who would later form the Taliban, to weaken the Soviet Union, following the latter’s invasion of Afghanistan. There are countless other examples, such as during the Cold War, when the U.S. funded any right-wing dictator, who could be counted on to fight “communism”, from Francisco Franco, the Shah of Iran, and Augusto Pinochet. Today, Canada, the United States, and NATO, continue to arm and support the genocidal Israel's Netanyahu regime, the most right-wing regime in Israel’s history, as it carries out the ethnic cleansing and extermination of Palestinians.

We are Anonymous.

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We do not Forgive.

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And now. Here is the short clips of Alexei Navalny racist certified nationalist videos.

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