UNLOCKED: Radio War Nerd PE #428 [REPOST] — Navalny and Limonov (Patreon)

Recorded: February 20, 2024

Free unlocked repost of our episode looking back at the life, politics & death of Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny, and the many ways he intersected with the radical writer and opposition leader Edward Limonov....

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Texts cited:-"My Fear and Loathing" by Alexei Navalny, August 11, 2023-"ANALYSIS: Is Jailed Alexei Navalny Really Writing All of His Public Messages?" Kyiv Post, August 16, 2023-"Journalists, analysts, and opposition figures respond to Alexey Navalny’s manifesto on the wicked 1990s and failure of Russia’s democrats", Meduza, August 15, 2023-"'It wasn’t written by Navalny!’ Russian opposition politician Alexey Navalny responds to those skeptical he writes his own posts" Meduza, August 29, 2023-His Butler's Story, Edward Limonov

*IMAGES:

*2006: (left to right) Limonov, Garry Kasparov, ex-PM Mikhail Kasyanov, leaders of the Other Russia anti-Putin movement

*2007: Navalny (right) with National-Bolsheviks member & author Zakhar Prilepin (left) and Yabloko's Sergei Gulyaev (left of Navalny) announcing NAROD's "national-democratic ideology"

*Navalny NAROD video, self-described as "accredited nationalist" the video ends with the slogan: "Think about the future. Become a nationalist!"

*Navalny after fight with heckler outside Club Gogol in central Moscow, 2007

*The heckler that Navalny shot and yelled racist pejoratives at (some say the heckler was related to an FSB agent; the heckler dropped all charges against Navalny so his identity was never known)

*Navalny arrested and detained after fight

*2008: Navalny (far right) with extreme-right Russian March umbrella group. left to right: Andrei Savalyev of Great Russia; Konstantin Krylov of Russian Social Movement; Alexander Belov (left of Navalny), leader of the Movement Against Illegal Immigration (DPNI); and Navalny (NAROD).

*2011: Limonov and Boris Nemtsov, two main leaders of anti-Putin opposition, months before it explodes and Navalny becomes its new leader

*2012: Limonov goes after Navalny

*2017: Limonov's Other Russia party flyer mocking Navalny: "Protesting with Navalny is like sex without an orgasm! You wanna play with revolution? Play with the NatsBols — with us everything is authentic! Yachts-villas-wineries and every sort of consumerist bullshit — the result not of corruption [as Navalny claims], but of the criminal privatization in the 1990s. They stole everything before you were even born!...Does Lyosha Navalny bother talking about this? Lyosha Navalny will lead you around for the next 40 years from one city square to the next, until you'll wanna vomit from the thought of yet another protest at another city square..."

*from one of Navalny's last, and his most controversial letters, August 2023:

Total time: 1:45:04

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