WORLD WORLDWIDE BELARUS News Journal Update - (en) Belarus, Pramen: SUCH A MYSTERIOUS RUSSIAN SOUL - TO THE DEATH OF NAVALNY (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, many people, including our
collective, had hope that Russian society would not forgive Putin for
such actions and would be able not only to stop the invasion, but also
to destroy Putin's regime. Yes, 2 years later such thoughts look naive,
and our hope for Russian society has completely melted away. In such an
atmosphere, Navalny's murder seems like a logical step in stabilizing
Putin's dictatorship - if the horrors of the war and the hundreds of
thousands of murdered Ukrainians were accepted by Russian society, then
they will accept a dead Navalny and continue to keep silent.

To be surprised by Navalny's murder today is to ignore the years of
Putin's rule in Russia. Murders of opponents, mass repressions and
police lawlessness.... Take the murder of Prigozhin, who was potentially
supported by so many "determined vatniks". Obviously, the successful
sabotage of support from the US and the military's advancement on
various fronts in Ukraine, has somewhat emboldened the Kremlin dictator.
Instead of defeat in Ukraine in 2023, we see that Russian industry has
been able to rebuild itself on a military footing and continues to exist
quite successfully despite Western sanctions and expert predictions of
the imminent collapse of the empire.

Will Russians do something about Putin this time? All this time, society
has not responded with explosions of rage neither to political
assassinations nor to the mass extermination of entire peoples. Maybe
the assassination of one of the most popular opposition politicians will
finally stir the minds of those who disagree with the regime but have
been doing so quietly and at home until now? Not likely. If Russians do
rise up, let's all be pleasantly surprised instead of constantly
disappointed....

If Navalny's death becomes just news, it will be another confirmation of
the stability of the Putin regime itself and its readiness to escalate
repression against the remaining opponents of the war and dictatorship
in the country itself.

https://pramen.io/en/2024/02/such-a-mysterious-russian-soul-to-the-death-of-navalny/
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