Strypey

"When you think about who could replace Alexei [Navalny] and what the opposition could look like in the future. What is a model, or a way of understanding how, over the next five or ten years, people can challenge Vladimir Putin and create a different Russia?"

#RoryStewart, 2025

"It's not about person, it's about procedure."

#YuliaNavalnaya, 2025

https://alastaircampbell.org/2025/02/121-yulia-navalnaya-the-woman-who-could-bring-down-putin/

Good answer.

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Alastair Campbell
Feb 22, 2025 at 3:21amWeb
Show threadStrypeyFeb 22, 2025

Being bitterly opposed to a person is just as much a part of their cult of personality as lavishing praise on them, or fearing and obeying them, and so on. As long as the focus is the same person, one way or another, the cult is maintained. And of course, they produce counter-cults (celebrity activists in Hollywood, Feel the Bern, Corbynism, etc).

As Navalnaya says, it's not about who they are - on either side - but about what they're *doing*. What we're *all* doing.

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