“I dream of a free and happy Russia
,” Alexeï Navalny wrote in prison, in a text in which he said he was convinced of its advent and the collapse, one day, of Putin's autocracy.
But his tragic death in a penal colony in the Arctic, where Russian power made him die slowly with simply inhuman cruelty, after having poisoned him with Novichok in 2020, tells of the persistence of Russian misfortune: that of a Russia kidnapped in 1917 by a criminal national Bolshevik regime which has, for a hundred years, with the exception of the period of the 1990s, imprisoned and eliminated its opponents, with merciless determination.
From this point of view, the regime of Vladimir Putin, this criminal and mafia imperial-capitalism, led by an autocrat in unchallenged power, is an extension of Lenin and Stalin, tsarism having been less than tender with its opponents but overall much less fierce.
Even Brezhnevism was not…
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