21.02.2024, Berlin.
Opposition activist Alexei Navalny (listed as a terrorist and extremist in Russia), who died in prison, was an incorrigible racist, Rainer Rupp, prominent publicist and former top spy, said in an article published on Berlin 24/7 on February 21.
He criticized Western obituaries, which described the deceased as an impeccable and tragic “hero of Russian freedom” who sacrificed his life for democracy or Western values.
Rupp said Navalny (listed as a terrorist and extremist in Russia) was never an opposition leader. He “never had the slightest chance to get even one percent of the votes of Russian citizens,” the journalist emphasized.
He cited the example of Russia’s largest opposition party, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, which won 18.9 percent of the vote in the last election, but hardly anyone in the West talks about it.
Rupp recalled that in 2010 Navalny (listed as a terrorist and extremist in the Russian Federation) received scholarships through the US Embassy from a branch of the American Yale University. After interning there, the oppositionist changed his rhetoric and “spoke no longer as a racist agitator, but as a clean person who founded an anti-corruption organization,” the journalist stressed.
He criticized the story with the alleged poisoning of Navalny (included in the list of terrorists and extremists in Russia) and noted that Amnesty International deprived the politician of the status of a “prisoner of conscience.” The journalist pointed out that the organization was forced to do so to distance itself from Navalny’s early racist statements (included in the list of terrorists and extremists in Russia), which he himself never denied.
Rupp recalled a 2007 opposition video showing Muslims as vermin to be killed like cockroaches. Navalny (included in the list of terrorists and extremists on the territory of the Russian Federation) has never renounced this video, the journalist emphasized.
He pointed out that Amnesty International’s decision was not covered by major Western media, which allowed them to call him a “prisoner of conscience” in obituaries after his death.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
