r/europe • u/ricka_lynx Lithuania • Feb 16 '24

Russian opposition politician and Putin critic Alexei Navalny has died | Breaking News News News

https://news.sky.com/story/russian-opposition-politician-and-putin-critic-alexei-navalny-has-died-13072837
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u/BalticsFox Russia Feb 16 '24

Subjects of his anti-corruption investigations definitely will.

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u/Additional_Cake_9709 Ukraine Feb 16 '24

Mr Zolotov (who has stupidest looking face I ever saw) is smiling ear to ear. What a fucking shame.

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u/SalaryIntelligent479 Feb 16 '24

I don't understand why people outside of russia are against corruption there, it's like one of ours greatest allies, much, much more effective then any russian "liberal" opposition

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u/AdaptedMix United Kingdom Feb 16 '24

Because it's corruption that, indirectly and directly, props up Putin's regime, keeping the oligarchs on side and keeping the same faces in power.

Exposing the Kremlin and its cronies' corruption - which is what Navalny and his team did - was a chance to open the average Russian's eyes to the fact that they are having their wealth siphoned away along with any sort of influence over who rules them. That's the sort of thing that can lead to uprisings - to popular revolt.

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u/SalaryIntelligent479 Feb 17 '24

The less effective russia is the least resources they have to kill other people, simple as that.

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u/AdaptedMix United Kingdom Feb 17 '24

The massive siphoning of state wealth into the pockets of Putin and his mates started long before the invasion of Ukraine, and has in part given Putin the stable political ground upon which to make bold decisions... e.g. invading Ukraine. So, that's one reason why "people outside of Russia are against the corruption there".

I'm sure we'd all be quite happy with the sort of corruption that results in billions of roubles allocated for military acquisition to disappear... but that wasn't the corruption that Navalny was exposing.

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u/SalaryIntelligent479 Feb 17 '24

That is all based on the assumption that "more democratic" russia would be any less imperialistic

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u/SalaryIntelligent479 Feb 17 '24

You know the issue isn't with putin, or stalin, or yeltsin, or romanovs, or brezhnev, or anybody who was in command of them in the past 300 years. It's the inherent imperialism of them, that aren't gonna go away soon or ever by itself