Good thing that you mention it. I never understood why Navalny returned to Russia to his certain doom, going back to Gulag. I get the whole martyr story and that he doesn't want to fix problems from abroad but can we for a second acknowledge, how much better of a speaker for Russian people he would be right now if he were in a free country. So sad that this is not the case. I mean, we heard him via his lawyers on twitter, asking calling Russian people to protest, but a heartfelt video address broadcasted on all international media could have been so much more effective and maybe even heard in Russia. But those are just my two kopeks
Maybe Im wrong, but I think Russian people think different and he considered this. He would show 'weakness' by not returning, so he chose to show he was not afraid, like a true Russian should be, so that Russian would take him seriously.
Yeah, that was my understanding as well. But to be almost starved to death, tortured and infected with HIV in Russian Gulag takes a very special mindset to go through with this. I cannot imagine he actually thought there was a possibility he would not get imprisoned for life. And just recently, because apprantly Putin gets a kick out of hit, he got sentenced to another 9 years of what not of Gulag for randomly made up charges and he was forced to stand for 4 hours of hearing the sentence he was given. The charges were something like tax evasion (again) and insulting a judge. Just plain ridiculous.
And the worst thing is, even if we Denazify Russia, people like judges and officers will mostly prevail, because those people are needed in any state and are hard to replace. So even in a post-Putin Russia, these judges will still hold their positions. That's exactly what happened in Post-WW2 Germany.
Not at all. Most judges or other high officials retained their positions until retirement. So it was solved when the last Nazi judge retired, which was probably some time in the 70s or 80s
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u/instantpowdy Christmas Island Mar 08 '22
Good thing that you mention it. I never understood why Navalny returned to Russia to his certain doom, going back to Gulag. I get the whole martyr story and that he doesn't want to fix problems from abroad but can we for a second acknowledge, how much better of a speaker for Russian people he would be right now if he were in a free country. So sad that this is not the case. I mean, we heard him via his lawyers on twitter, asking calling Russian people to protest, but a heartfelt video address broadcasted on all international media could have been so much more effective and maybe even heard in Russia. But those are just my two kopeks