Honestly i was suprised he lived this long. Damn.
You can kill a revolutionary, but you can’t kill a revolution.
https://toombs.earth/music-archived/Tool %26 Rage Against The Machine - Revolution.mp3
EDIT: better recording? https://toombs.earth/music/youtube/Tool %26 Rage Against The Machine - Revolution (Remastered) - eXnbo09kGFI.opus
spineless nation can’t do revolution.
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.
Astronaut meme intensifies.
thousands died
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.
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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.
Are we both talking about the same country?
I’m talking about moskovia.
Sorry, I don’t follow.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny has died, prison officials in the Yamal-Nenets region said on Friday.
The 47-year-old was Russia’s foremost opposition leader, winning a huge following with his criticism of corruption under Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said it was not clear if Navalny had suffered a blood clot rupture, as mass media began to report.
He has called Russian President Vladimir Putin a “madman” and said the ruling party in Russia was full of “crooks and thieves.”
Over the years, Navalny has faced physical attacks, repeated arrests, investigations, and criminal proceedings, which he claims to be politically motivated.
However, with Navalny staying in Germany for several months after his release from the hospital, Russian authorities warned he was in violation of probation terms of an earlier court case and threatened to arrest him upon return.
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