The article inaccurately gives Navalny’s name as Alexander. It is actually Alexei.
Fraser Bailey
3 years ago
Funnily enough I read ‘A Voice From The Chorus’ just last year. This is an account by Abram Tertz of his time in a Russian labour camp in the late 1960s, as told through letters to his wife. (So, very heavily censored and, probably, far from the full story). Either way, it would appear that things are possibly worse now than they were then. But that’s Russia for you, and the Russians do seem to like an autocrat.
Sadly, the predilection for a “strong leader” is not just Russian. In the UK, part of Boris’ attraction was that he was willing to break the law and lie and cheat to bring about his aims. Whether he is turning out to be as strong a leader as he pretended remains unclear. A similar phenomenon may have occurred in the US (and readers can label whichever side they like as the cheats there).
That sort of thing doesn’t seem to be good for democracy. Any chance of a return to the rule of law here, do you think?
You’d probably be more annoyed if you’d understood my point, John. I was comparing the Russian people and some of the English people who supported Boris, in their appetite for “strong” leadership. What starts with someone like Boris may end with someone more like Vladimir.
For the avoidance of doubt, Boris is not as bad, and the English people as a whole are less keen on self-styled strongmen – in spite of the Home Secretary’s incessant attempts to be tough on people of whom she does not approve.
You are right but in the wrong way. Johnstone is nowhere near the leader Putin is and his government’s mishandling of the not so dread virus graphically demonstrates that. He’s also a war criminal because in addition to having special forces illegally in Syria Britain participated in the missile attack after the obvious false flag CW attack in Douma, unless you can invent a plausible reason why the Syrian government would do that when on the verge of routing the terrorist forces there.
Do the downvoters actually think that Boris puts the rule of law above doing what he wants to do? If he doesn’t, then he’s going down the Putin route, whether you support him or not.
Robert Montgomery
3 years ago
Navalny was not “charged” with fraud, he was convicted and sentenced then broke parole conditions, at least you get that part right. Navalny has at best 2% support in Russia that’s not exactly a huge concern to Putin who is massively popular.
“Navalny hinted at this in a message posted on his Instagram account last week:…”
Um, what’s wrong in this picture? Relative to the tenor of this article?
You’re kidding, right…?
Cathy Carron
2 months ago
And in the news this morning, Navalny has suddenly died….R.I.P.
Clare Knight
2 months ago
Navalny is dead. I always thought why, why would he go back to Russia knowing he would suffer and be killed. Matyrdom yes, but I think he could have done more if he’d stayed outside of Russia.
Thomas Prentice
3 years ago
Actually, I think you meant Tsar Nicholas II’s gulags.
The Siberian gulags vastly predated Stalin and Lenin and Khrushchev and Brezhnev and Putin and were merely a continuity of the pre-existing gulag archipelago of the thousand years of Tsars.
Indeed Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Yeltsin, Medvedev and Putin are simply modern iterations of the Tsars, no more, no less.
Just as Xi and Deng and Mao are simply the latest in a 6,000 year line of Chinese emperors.
Nonsense. The Tsarist penal system was not an extensive system of torture-to-death in the Soviet style and it did not target political prisoners, who received softer treatment – exile in Siberia. In all, just over six thousand were exiled to Siberia in the whole of the nineteenth century – sometimes with servants; Stalin routinely sent that number to a terrible, agonising death in the course of a day. Why not check some facts before lashing out with such wild, inaccurate allegations? Or are you hoping to whitewash communism’s history of continual crime by pretending that it was nothing new?
I am afraid that is not accurate.
If you read he account of the Bolsheviks who were exiled to Siberia it was holiday in comparison,
.
Patrick White
3 years ago
What a splendidly uplifting piece.
I so wish we had something like this here, where we could finally install the likes of Diane Abbott, David Lammy, BLM, Stonewall, Ash Sarkar, Julie Bindelsque feminist atrocities, Extinction Rebellion, transvester-anything, and media Jews writing article after article suggesting the extinction of white people.
The thought of just getting on with life, and actually progressing as a nation, rather than pandering to the machinations of Third World imbeciles and self-appointed mendacious middle eastern chosen people seems overwhelming – almost too blissful to contemplate. Because there’s always the grim reality of ‘equality’ that you eventually have to open your eyelids to.
The article inaccurately gives Navalny’s name as Alexander. It is actually Alexei.
Funnily enough I read ‘A Voice From The Chorus’ just last year. This is an account by Abram Tertz of his time in a Russian labour camp in the late 1960s, as told through letters to his wife. (So, very heavily censored and, probably, far from the full story). Either way, it would appear that things are possibly worse now than they were then. But that’s Russia for you, and the Russians do seem to like an autocrat.
Sadly, the predilection for a “strong leader” is not just Russian. In the UK, part of Boris’ attraction was that he was willing to break the law and lie and cheat to bring about his aims. Whether he is turning out to be as strong a leader as he pretended remains unclear. A similar phenomenon may have occurred in the US (and readers can label whichever side they like as the cheats there).
That sort of thing doesn’t seem to be good for democracy. Any chance of a return to the rule of law here, do you think?
What over-egged nonsense! There is no comparison worth making between Boris (for all his faults) and Putin.
Well they both have Russian names…
You’d probably be more annoyed if you’d understood my point, John. I was comparing the Russian people and some of the English people who supported Boris, in their appetite for “strong” leadership. What starts with someone like Boris may end with someone more like Vladimir.
For the avoidance of doubt, Boris is not as bad, and the English people as a whole are less keen on self-styled strongmen – in spite of the Home Secretary’s incessant attempts to be tough on people of whom she does not approve.
When in a hole, stop digging.
You are right but in the wrong way. Johnstone is nowhere near the leader Putin is and his government’s mishandling of the not so dread virus graphically demonstrates that. He’s also a war criminal because in addition to having special forces illegally in Syria Britain participated in the missile attack after the obvious false flag CW attack in Douma, unless you can invent a plausible reason why the Syrian government would do that when on the verge of routing the terrorist forces there.
Johnson, not Johnstone!
Do the downvoters actually think that Boris puts the rule of law above doing what he wants to do? If he doesn’t, then he’s going down the Putin route, whether you support him or not.
Navalny was not “charged” with fraud, he was convicted and sentenced then broke parole conditions, at least you get that part right. Navalny has at best 2% support in Russia that’s not exactly a huge concern to Putin who is massively popular.
Oh those Russians….
I find their directness refreshing.
What?!
“Navalny hinted at this in a message posted on his Instagram account last week:…”
Um, what’s wrong in this picture? Relative to the tenor of this article?
You’re kidding, right…?
And in the news this morning, Navalny has suddenly died….R.I.P.
Navalny is dead. I always thought why, why would he go back to Russia knowing he would suffer and be killed. Matyrdom yes, but I think he could have done more if he’d stayed outside of Russia.
Actually, I think you meant Tsar Nicholas II’s gulags.
The Siberian gulags vastly predated Stalin and Lenin and Khrushchev and Brezhnev and Putin and were merely a continuity of the pre-existing gulag archipelago of the thousand years of Tsars.
Indeed Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Yeltsin, Medvedev and Putin are simply modern iterations of the Tsars, no more, no less.
Just as Xi and Deng and Mao are simply the latest in a 6,000 year line of Chinese emperors.
Nonsense. The Tsarist penal system was not an extensive system of torture-to-death in the Soviet style and it did not target political prisoners, who received softer treatment – exile in Siberia. In all, just over six thousand were exiled to Siberia in the whole of the nineteenth century – sometimes with servants; Stalin routinely sent that number to a terrible, agonising death in the course of a day. Why not check some facts before lashing out with such wild, inaccurate allegations? Or are you hoping to whitewash communism’s history of continual crime by pretending that it was nothing new?
I am afraid that is not accurate.
If you read he account of the Bolsheviks who were exiled to Siberia it was holiday in comparison,
.
What a splendidly uplifting piece.
I so wish we had something like this here, where we could finally install the likes of Diane Abbott, David Lammy, BLM, Stonewall, Ash Sarkar, Julie Bindelsque feminist atrocities, Extinction Rebellion, transvester-anything, and media Jews writing article after article suggesting the extinction of white people.
The thought of just getting on with life, and actually progressing as a nation, rather than pandering to the machinations of Third World imbeciles and self-appointed mendacious middle eastern chosen people seems overwhelming – almost too blissful to contemplate. Because there’s always the grim reality of ‘equality’ that you eventually have to open your eyelids to.
Well said.