Re: Alexey Navalny documentary
David Dalton <[email protected]> Wed, 27 Jan 2021 01:31:17 -0330
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On Jan 26, 2021, David Dalton wrote (in article<[email protected]>): > On Jan 25, 2021, David Dalton wrote > (in article<[email protected]>): > > > Shared/forwarded from alt.buddha.short.fat.guy : > > > > Alexey Navalny barely survived being poisoned on Vladimir Putin’s > > orders. Predictably, as soon as he returned to Russia, he was > > arrested. But he arranged for this documentary to be released: > > > > https://youtu.be/ipAnwilMncI > > But I’ve only watched the first couple of minutes of it so far, > though I do plan to watch it all eventually. So I don’t know > yet (and maybe won’t even after I watch it) how much of it > is credible and how much is anti-Putin propaganda. It > could be that someone other than Putin ordered the poisoning, > which after all could create a martyr effect. But probably at least some of it is true, and I think that Putin should order the release of Navalny even if some oligarchs are against that. And even Navalny’s imprisonment could have an Arab-Spring-like escalating martyr effect. -- David Dalton [email protected] http://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page) http://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page) “And now the angry morning/Gives the early signs of warning/You must face alone the plans you make/Decisions they will try to break" (Sarah McLachlan)