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AJ's avatar

What Navalny did was the single most audacious act of bravery I've ever witnessed.

What Republicans are doing in service to Trump is the single most audacious act of cowardice I've ever witnessed as well.

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Patris's avatar

Yes

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Diana Ruddick's avatar

You've summed it up perfectly, AJ.

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Marsha Shalloway's avatar

Steven…wish the U.N. would sanction

Russia and remove all voting rights…

America and all NATO members withdraw

The 400 Billion belonging to Putin from Banks that have frozen the money Give

every single dollar to Ukraine to fight

Putin and terror Save Ukraine and allow them to join NATO….bless NAVALNY

Never Forget…thank you, Marsha

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Marie Lachat's avatar

Thank you, Marsha. If only you and all of us who believe in your wishes had the power to make this happen. Most of us will work diligently in the path of this upcoming election to make the changes that we can here.

We will work to get out the vote and encourage Vote Blue. I get encouragement to keep up this hard fought endeavor from Simon Rosenberg, Robert Hubble, Michael Moore, Kareem Abdul Jabar and others on substack who provide a positive reason to keep on the job. Robert Hubble’s “Today’s Edition Newsletter” has good info on how to make a difference. You don’t have to be Navalny to make a difference but you can be inspired by him.

I learned from Michael Moore two years ago when he predicted correctly a Dem victory while media yelled a certain defeat “There are more of us than there are of them.” And today from Martha I learned “Never forget”. Thank you, Martha.

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Marie Lachat's avatar

Marsha so sorry for misusing a name I won’t forget.

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Marsha Shalloway's avatar

Marie Lachat .., bless your

Kindness won’t forget you

With love Marsha ❤️

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Marsha Shalloway's avatar

Beth thank you for your heartfelt

Response ❤️Marsha

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Patris's avatar

Some humans are exceptional. For their work, for their words, for their actions.

With their deaths they become immortal.

Putin creates heroes when he murders.

Navalny lives on.

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gpm414's avatar

Alexei Navalny, a man who sacrificed his life in his fight for the freedom of his country. It can't be more clear to me, that our freedom to live in a Democracy will be decided on Nov. 5. Alexei's words are loud and clear, "We don’t realize how strong we actually are.”

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Al Ross III's avatar

Only in a free country could a political party trash the constitution openly and shout support for a hateful villain like Putin and his orange lap dog DJT!

Sadly only in a free country can we fight to overcome this crazed cult formerly called "The GOP"!

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John G. Ata's avatar

You’re absolutely right Steve, Navalny was an example and inspiration to all those worldwide who cherish virtue in their leaders. But he also will always be an irritating figure and counter example to those who cherish malfeasance and vice to obtain what they want by any means necessary. It is more true today since someone’s ideals and aspirations can so easily live in our digital age beyond physical life shining light in the fog that is deliberately being set to cause confusion. May we always use such lights in our ability to look ahead and discern.

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SPW's avatar

Never forget this man and what he did in his fight to expose putin for the thug he is and trump would be just like him. How many NAVALNYS would it take for our people to realize this?

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Terry Hourigan, R.N.'s avatar

My mind saw that green face, heard screams on a plane, remembered that smile, and brought tears like those over MLK and the Holocaust Museum.

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Ann Sharon's avatar

Alexie Navalny held the purpose of his life, opposition to the Kremlim, as more important than holding onto his life. Putin, like other despots, fears all opposition, but none as much as those whose memories survive as motivation and hope.

https://www.rferl.org/a/enemies-kremlin-deaths-prigozhin-list/32562583.html

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Cicada's avatar

I once came across a video of Mikhail Baryshnikov dancing. Watching this Master of Dance brought tears to my eyes. I used to listen to Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto #2 in C Minor over and over again as I worked. Again, tears. I was inspired by the works of Marc Chagall. These are only a few of the many talents that have meant a great deal to me in my lifetime. Now the name Navalny shall join them. Different in “talent”, yes, but not in Spirit. This is what I want to reflect on when I think of Russia and its people. Not the “Putins”, et alia, who dominate the headlines these days. Indeed, it saddens me deeply, Knowing that such a rich culture, on one hand can produce a depth of beauty, the other such indifference to Life. Sound familiar…? My Hope, our better selves, our True Selves, shall overcome our fears, have the courage to sacrifice for a Greater Good, and, be Grateful for the Gift of Life… that it is.

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Susan Linehan's avatar

Idiot GOP folks are tweeting comparing Trump to Navalny, claiming trump is a comparable political prisoner. Dear lord, the idiots among us. They wouldn't know a hero if he saved their lives, if said hero was a Democrat.

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Donald Sinclair Richardson's avatar

We really have to understand personally the level of threat to this democracy that Citizen Trump

and his acolytes represent to this great Nation. They will burn this democracy to ash if we don’t stop them hard; no temerity, no forgiveness, just a hard stop.

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Mike Yochim's avatar

Right there with you.

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Rita Richards Newhouse's avatar

Another Russian named Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov who proclaimed promise to workers was also jailed for a year, then sent to Siberia for 3 years by the Czar. Upon release he fled to western Europe to continue to build support for his socialist-Marxist beliefs, spurred on by revoltionary activity in Russia. Changing his name to Lenin, he returned .Ripe with distaste for fighting in WW I, through his murderous ways, he was welcomed by the Russian people and set the stage for the country from 1917 onward. Repression came to a head with Gorbachev, then, freedom for a minute and a half under Yeltsin. Usually drunk, he handed the reigns to Putin, people believing he would prevent the return of Communism. With his autocratic bent, there he remains, his nemesis dead.

And so we have a repeat with Navalny but though he had his supporters, Putin was too entrenched, so a different outcome from Lenin's.

Yes, he was courageous in returning home , but was it wise? Had it not been better to stay away and work from afar till the time was riper to overthrow tyrannical Putin? What good a martyr if the status quo persists?

The American situation is more like Germany. Its people were livid that they were losers of WW I, They longed for a leader like Bismarck. So, too, do so many losers in America long for leadership that they think will improve their lot, unable to see that they are supporting another Hitler or Mussolini. Those who could have stopped him spoke ill of him only behind closed doors or resigned before confessing their true feelings. We need no martyr. We need living voting citizen heroes to confine trump to the footnotes of future history books.

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Rita Richards Newhouse's avatar

trump has finally uttered Navalny's name, only to make it all about himself being persecuted by "A nation in decline. A failing nation." No mention of his friend, Putin.

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Cynthia Kruger (HI) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

Sadly . . . across the World there is a strong, selfish, trait that tends toward authoritarianism. For some it is anathema to share, only to take, a trait that is more prevalent in humans than most care to admit.

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James S's avatar

In all the history of the human race only the minutest fraction have ever lived FREE. Navalny's soul-wrenching mission to bring that to the Russian people exposes just how lightly we appreciate being American, and the traitorous action of many in the GOP exposes just how easily we can lose that.

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Mike Yochim's avatar

Note to Mr. Trump, what your handler did to Mr. Navalny is what political persecution really looks like.

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Earl Heflinger's avatar

It seems that the powers that be always try to get rid of people of superior character—from Jesus to Navalny—if they try too hard to influence the power structure or change the order of things to improve people’s lives. Even Taylor Swift is apparently feeling the pressure.

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