Thierry Wolton: “The name of Alexeï Navalny must now be added to the list of the great martyrs of the Soviet regime” “It proves that Putin, who greatly admires Stalin, does not hesitate to use the same methods, even if millions of deaths cannot yet be attributed to him, as is the case for his disaster model,” he says. Wolton is a specialist in communism and publishes Le Retour des temps barbares.