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Thierry Wolton: “The name of Alexeï Navalny must now be added to the list of the great martyrs of the Soviet regime”

2024-02-17T07:10:41.917Z

Highlights: 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.


INTERVIEW - The death of the Russian opponent in prison shows how Putin has not broken with the worst of the Soviet heritage, believes the historian*.


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Thierry Wolton is a specialist in communism and publishes Le

Retour des temps barbares, a book on the geopolitical upheaval caused by the war in Ukraine.

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, is the death of Alexeï Navalny a manifestation of this, in your opinion

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THIERRY WOLTON.

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Dying in camps or prisons was common under communism, especially during the era of Stalin, the most barbaric leader Russia has known throughout its history.

This death takes us back.

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.

In any case, Navalny's name must now be added to the list of the great martyrs of the Soviet regime, because the break that the collapse of the USSR should have had in 1991 did not really happen.

This crime proves it.

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Source: lefigaro

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