Because Navalny is scary even in death
The martyrdom of Alexei Navalny teaches that no regime thrives forever in the silence of its people. Guiglia's notebook
All the circumstances of Alexei Navalny's death lead to Putin.
Yulia Navalnaya, the widow, reports it with the change of baton: now she will be the one to continue her husband's battle against the regime.
“I will fight for a free, peaceful and happy Russia,” he declared, blaming the Tsar for Alexei's murder with Novichok, a powerful poison that kills and is difficult to detect. After all, it was precisely with that poison that they had already tried to kill him on 20 August 2020. But he, having survived his executioners and the persecutions he suffered for ten years, chose to return to his homeland rather than remain protected in Europe for treatment. He preferred to heroically face a sealed destiny. But not to give up his dignity and the idea of freedom he advocated for his beloved Russia.
An example of romantic rectitude that cannot be reconciled, and perhaps not even conceivable, in the cynical cowardice of the political classes of the West which, if there had been no aggression against Ukraine, would have remained dependent on Moscow for gas and oil. 'power.
But Alexei is scary even in death. His family and even his lawyer were prevented from seeing him and mourning him. They will have to wait two weeks, clearly the medical and political time necessary to allow the regime to construct its lie on the case, avoiding the danger of cross-examinations which, especially if carried out immediately, would end up creating embarrassment and sparking new protests against Putin.
But many are already protesting far from Russia. Even in Rome the entire political spectrum wanted to demonstrate their indignation near the Moscow embassy. For once the unity between majority and opposition, at least superficially, prevailed over the divisions shown both over the figure and international role of Putin, and over the war he unleashed against Kiev.
“Living without lies”, was the memorable appeal of 1974 written by Alexander Solzhenitsin, Nobel Prize winner for literature and fearless witness and accuser of the Gulag and the communist regime of which he too was a political prisoner. Putin's Russia is reminiscent of the USSR that Solzhenitsyn introduced to the free world with his profound and documented novels, in the tradition of great Russian literature.
Today, as then, we are still grappling with "lies", that is, the concealment of the truth by a system that can only hope to perpetuate the ideology of lies at every level – from the death of Navalny to the invasion of Ukraine – annihilate international and internal resistance. Even if the latter were intimidated, silenced, poisoned, tarnished.
But the martyrdom of Alexei Navalny teaches that no regime thrives forever in the silence of its people. When you suppress a free voice, and in that brutal way, it is impossible to hide such a big lie. The word today goes to Yulia Navalnaya.
Published in Gazzetta di Mantova and Bresciaoggi
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This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/perche-navalny-fa-paura-anche-da-morto/ on Sat, 24 Feb 2024 06:52:04 +0000.