“I didn’t have to be in this place, I didn’t have to record this video. In my place should have be another person. But this person was killed by Putin.”
“I didn’t have to be in this place, I didn’t have to record this video. In my place should have be another person. But this person was killed by Putin.”
This is not someone to be celebrated. Use his death as an expose on the silencing of dissent in Russia but as nothing more.
He was a Russian fascist with well documented association with the neo-Nazis in the early 2000s then turned into a pro-Western liberal who opposes Putin.
Edit: 2011 NY Times profile about Navalny (CW: racism):
Not to mention he voluntarily went back to Russia after believing they tried to have him killed. I don’t know what he expected
Also the video of him being racist is still up on his personal YouTube channel to be clear. It is not a position he ever distanced himself from.
“Hide” is the word you’re looking for. He didn’t hide from his past misdeeds, any more than he hid from Vladimir Putin.
And given that the newest example of this racism is from 2007, seventeen years old now, it’s obvious he did distance himself from it. If he hadn’t, you’d have been able to find a much newer example.
You don’t need grand apologies to distance yourself from bad behavior. All it really takes is simply not repeating it.