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And that’s exactly what Aleksei Navalnyi showed the world: he had the “impertinence” to prove that the FSB is empty: there is a reminder scene in the “Navalny” documentary that will probably go down in history, by the force with which she manages to destroy the myth of the agent of “smart” information, with the patience of a sphinx and able to play chess in three dimensions. Specifically, when Aleksei directly calls the security guards who tried to assassinate him and effectively turns them into a pigsty. It’s a downright cathartic moment: it shows you how Putin’s FSB’s industrial killing machine works. Navalny died once (as he himself joked in the documentary) poisoned with Novichok, after showing the world the nakedness of “Tsar” Putin. And now, he had to die for the second time, after exposing the brainless brutes of Russian “Intelligence”. He believed that the Russian people would not be afraid. And he will rebel. He was wrong.
“Who’s the dumbest?” Navalny at one point asks Hristo Grozev, the Bellingcat investigative journalist who managed to uncover the entire network of FSB assassins who tried to poison Navalny with Noviciok.
“The most stupid?. Clearly, it’s these guys from Speţnaz, without training,” Grozev promptly answers.
“It seems logical to me to fool the dumbest. Then, these guys who are not in the army”, says Navalnîi.
“Honestly, I don’t think it’s going to work, these are guys from the FSB.”
It just worked.
At first, Navalny simply cannot resist the temptation to tell the security guards directly who he is and what he wants from them. And the security guards hang up his phone. It’s a terribly serious moment (those guys actually wanted to exterminate him), and Aleksei acts like a teenager making jokes at 112.
After a few phone calls to the “fools” from the army/Spetsnaz/FSB (one, smarter, seems to recognize his voice and hangs up – Aleksei didn’t even bother to put a handkerchief on the microphone, as we see in the movies), in the shout “Bingo”.
An “unfortunate”, probably awakened from sleep, falls into Navalnî’s game and spills everything. He “breaks” from the first: he explains what went wrong (they hadn’t taken into account the forced landing), how much dose he was given, in what panties, etc. The actual man details the entire “institutional” mechanism set up by Putin’s men to commit assassinations against Russian citizens.
“The poor thing,” says Navalny after the conversation. “He’s going to clean it up. They will probably find him in a ditch the next day.”
Otherwise, viewed now, retroactively, the documentary “Navalny” is a very sad one: it is the story of a man who tried a change and who believed in it.
Image from the documentary “Navalny”, about Aleksei Navalny, who won the Oscar in 2023. Photo: Profimedia Images
“Don’t be afraid,” Navalny tells the Russians directly, after being asked at one point to deliver a message in case he is killed. Because if he gets killed (as he did, by the way), that actually shows “how strong” those who oppose Putin’s dictatorship are.
“You are not allowed to quit. If they decide to kill me, that means we are extremely powerful. We must use this power. Let’s not give up and remember that we are a huge force that these scoundrels are trying to suppress.”
Navalny strongly believed in two things: the “stupidity” of the repressive system and the courage of the people of Russia. He was wrong on the second count. Especially since Putin’s repressive system has managed to offset stupidity with brutality.
Seeing now the scenes where Aleksei Navalnyi rejoices like a child when he is told that a certain clip has received “millions of views”, you get the impression that he, somehow, may have been mistaken and thought that those millions of likes and shares can be translated into real-world people willing to take to the streets.
It was not the case.
“The only thing evil needs to triumph is for good people to do nothing”
looked at now when we know exactly how this story actually ended, the end of the documentary is extremely sad: the scene in which Navalny lands in Moscow, and the frame is filled with the dark uniforms of the bear militia, is downright prophetic. You, the spectator, watch helplessly at the scene, just like the millions of Russians who have decided to do nothing. Because, quite simply, they are afraid. And you can’t blame them for that.
The documentary “Navalny”, was made in 2022 and won in 2023 the Oscar for the best documentary. Currently, the film can be watched in Romania on the HBO Max streaming platform. The film focuses in particular on the period between Navalny’s poisoning – his recovery in Germany and his return to Moscow in 2021, when he was immediately arrested at the airport.
Otherwise, the filmmakers decide not to go too deep into the character and only tangentially touch on the “shadow” area of his life – such as the controversy regarding Navalny’s participation in a neo-Nazi march and the explanation that he sees himself as a man who must to address all Russians, including “nationalists” who cry “Sieg Heil”. Plus the – tragic – conclusion drawn by him himself, that in Russia you have to actually become a brother to the devil (the one who shouts “Sieg Heil”) to have a chance against Putin.
Aleksei Navalnyi was imprisoned in one of the harshest prison colonies in Russia. Here, he was forced to stay in the cold at -32 degrees Celsius
Aleksei Navalnyi, considered one of the main opponents of the Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, died on Friday, at the age of 47, in the Hrap prison colony, in northwestern Siberia, 1,900 kilometers from Moscow. The Federal Penitentiary Service of the Iamalo-Nenetia region (where the colony is located) wrote that Navalny “felt ill” after a walk on Friday and “almost immediately lost consciousness.”
The Russian dissident addressed the Supreme Court in Moscow in January to complain about the extremely harsh conditions in the penal colony where he was imprisoned, after being transferred here in December 2023.
Navalnyi was incarcerated in a maximum security prison colony in northwestern Siberia. Photo: X/Twitter/Alexey Navalny
He was serving a 19-year prison sentence on extremism charges. Navalny had been incarcerated since January 2021, when he returned to Russia after recovering from nerve agent poisoning in Germany. He had accused Putin of poisoning and was immediately detained upon his return.
Aleksei Navalnyi told about the harsh conditions in the penal colony in Siberia, especially the bitter cold and the time limit for meals. “It is impossible to eat in 10 minutes,” he told the Moscow court. “If you eat every day in no more than 10 minutes, then that meal turns into a very difficult process.”
“Prison is often an extremely cold place,” Aleksei Navalny continued. “Do you know why people choose to go there with a newspaper? To wrap himself in it. With a newspaper, I can tell you judges, the jail becomes a warmer place to sleep than without one. You need a newspaper so you don’t freeze,” he added. The Hrap prison colony is considered an heir to the Soviet Gulag. The prisoners – forced to do forced labor – work at tanning and sewing reindeer skins, in terrible conditions.
