Russia's opposition leader and most prominent Putin critic Alexei Navalny "lost consciousness" and died, Russian officials have said. Navalny was serving a prison sentence in a remote Arctic penal colony.
The last time they toppled their leader was over 100 years ago, and it was only downhill from there.
Everyone who was smart left already. The smart ones who stayed and were stupid enough to open their mouth got into a gulag. Everyone who talked about these people getting jailed up, was also jailed up. Thousands died. Million live above the bare minimum. There is no progression. No public discourse where to go. No idea what they could change, no perseverance to try out anything. Russia is a empty shell of disillusioned people, where nobody trust anyone and people dont want to talk their mind to not get in trouble. It is fake, empty, oppressed and a like minded simmering of the same lies over and over.
It is a hazardous place for any socially or human development.
We really must separate out the people directly murdered for being a threat to the Soviet dictatorship, and the people who died as a result of Soviet incompetence and mismanagement.
They still died, but context matters.
Strongman style dictators are always petty and vindictive. But are also always corrupt and just bad at their job.
It’s often made worse by the fact that they will kill people for pointing out how bad they are at their job.
The Great Purge - i.e. just the purge under Stalin in the mid-1920’s - is estimated to have killed around (some estimate more than) a million people. No separation necessary, we aren’t talking about disastrous policies and wars.
This is to say nothing of the Russian civil war (tens of millions dead) or other leaders’ at the national and more local levels engaging in their own political purges.
The last time they toppled their leader was over 100 years ago, and it was only downhill from there. Everyone who was smart left already. The smart ones who stayed and were stupid enough to open their mouth got into a gulag. Everyone who talked about these people getting jailed up, was also jailed up. Thousands died. Million live above the bare minimum. There is no progression. No public discourse where to go. No idea what they could change, no perseverance to try out anything. Russia is a empty shell of disillusioned people, where nobody trust anyone and people dont want to talk their mind to not get in trouble. It is fake, empty, oppressed and a like minded simmering of the same lies over and over.
It is a hazardous place for any socially or human development.
Always has been.
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Millions died
We really must separate out the people directly murdered for being a threat to the Soviet dictatorship, and the people who died as a result of Soviet incompetence and mismanagement.
They still died, but context matters.
Strongman style dictators are always petty and vindictive. But are also always corrupt and just bad at their job.
It’s often made worse by the fact that they will kill people for pointing out how bad they are at their job.
The Great Purge - i.e. just the purge under Stalin in the mid-1920’s - is estimated to have killed around (some estimate more than) a million people. No separation necessary, we aren’t talking about disastrous policies and wars.
This is to say nothing of the Russian civil war (tens of millions dead) or other leaders’ at the national and more local levels engaging in their own political purges.
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