Benedict Cumberbatch reads one of Alexei Navalny's final letters

[kingsuperman]

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Last month Vladimir Putin’s most prominent critic, Alexei Navalny, paid the ultimate price for his beliefs, dying in a West Siberian prison after years of relentless campaigning against corruption and a near-fatal poisoning. By the time of his death, Navalny had been imprisoned for more than two years, during which time he wrote to his supporters

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[better2beloved]

Putin is an evil dictator and Alexi didn’t deserve to die but why is everyone acting like he wasn’t a islamphobic, hateful nationalist? I’m not condoning his death but this sainthood he now has doesn’t sit right with me.

[kingsuperman]

He apologized for some of his comments last year.

3/14 К еще большему своему стыду, я как-то под влиянием того, что мой товарищ сидел под обстрелом в Цхинвали, написал в 2008 году пост с оскорбительным эпитетом в адрес грузин.

За это я извинялся и извиняюсь снова,
- Alexey Navalny (@navalny) April 13, 2023

[xdecadentx]

The same reason they keep insisting the US vote for Biden regardless of his complicity in genocide; hating Muslims and brown people isn't a line for these people.

[purrple_267]

Tbh, a lot of people have only heard he stood up to Putin and nothing else. I didn't watch the doc cause local people said that people in our region (bordering Russia, unfortunately) will learn nothing new from it, but did it show any negative stuff about him?

[afrosamurai1089]

I hold the same reservations as the first commenter on this post.

Minorities are expected to forgive and move on after white society's golden boys walk back their atrocious comments in the 2020s. However we still maintained we were human back in 2000s and 2010s and these people didn't care.

Russian people are deserving of freedom and I recognise that the death of this individual is a setback to that goal. However we cannot all be expected to bow our heads in reverence.

[sarahvma]

I can't comment on the politics because I'm not informed enough but I have to out myself here and say that Cumberbatch could save me from a burning building and the mention of his name would still have me rolling my eyes.

I'm sure he's great and people like him but I don't think we've ever seen a more unnecessarily hyped actor in the history of the earth.

[corroded_tears]

Huge swing and miss here, Benny, Alexei Navalny was a hateful white nationalist and sure “imperfect heroes” and whatever but there is no amount of “I’m sowwy” that can walk back nazism.

[anjnaadams]

LL'S done historically relevant letters before.

For some reason, I always remember the one written by Boris Johnson's teacher about how much he sucked.