• @anlumo@lemmy.world
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    666 months ago

    I’ll never understand why he intentionally let himself be captured by Russia. The outcome was inevitable.

    • @ANIMATEK@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      He is so notorious because he was willing to selflessly put himself in the frontline to prove a point.

        • @Risk@feddit.uk
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          346 months ago

          Martyrdom. Navalny knew what it would mean to return; he also knew the risk of not returning (constantly trying to avoid shitty assassination attempts with collateral damage).

            • @Plopp@lemmy.world
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              146 months ago

              Speaking of… When was the last time we heard from Snowden? Haven’t seen his name in the media since basically the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

            • @Risk@feddit.uk
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              36 months ago

              I don’t know whether it had a significant impact in Russia, but the rest of the world only knows/cares about the guy because he went back. Otherwise he’d just be yet another person murdered by Putin’s regime.

          • @chitak166@lemmy.world
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            6 months ago

            I guess you’re right.

            Maybe he did have a greater impact getting poisoned, imprisoned, and ‘defenestrated’ than he would have had outside of Russia.

            Time will tell, I won’t hold my breath.

            Personally, I think you’re just finding ways to agree with the crowd even if they’re wrong. I don’t hold most people above that behavior.