Alexei Navanly was no hero

Recently, Putin critic Alexei Navanly died while serving a politically motivated prison sentence in Russia. I wrote positively in the past about Navanly while I was in my "anti-authoritarianism" phase which lacked any historical or material context and before I began deprogramming myself from a lifetime of Western imperialist propaganda. At the time, I fell for the Russophobic hysteria pushed by the liberal establishment media. I considered Valdmir Putin an enemy, which I still do, however, I naively supported any enemy of his. That was a mistake.

Putin is a dictator but we should not blindly support or worship someone else simply for opposing the Russian president. When you ignore the liberal fluff pieces of the man and actually dig in to Navanly's past, we find that he was actually a far-right nationalist who likened Muslims to cockroaches. You can read more about this in this article here.