Today, Navalny is being sentenced in yet another staged trial, for defaming a WWII veteran (Navalny called everyone who made a pro-Putin propaganda video stooges and crooks, and the old man was in it). His last words are absolutely epic.
zona.media/online/2021/02…
Navalny has obtained a document that shows how much help the vet got from the govt. He was given aid 7 times over the last 4 years, in food and home products certificates totaling 11K rubles ($150).
"This is how you really care for veterans, you hypocrite scum!", Navalny screamed
He talks about the 15 people who have been hired to "investigate" this "crime", calling them leeches and idlers who were given housing in Moscow on taxpayers' dime. The money spent on the "investigation" has dwarfed the help the veteran has received over his entire life.
Navalny recites all of his own investigations that expose Putin's corruption, then rips into the veteran's grandson, a pro-Putin activist who filed the charges.
"You could read it on his face: "Yes, finally I have monetized grandpa!", Navalny rails.
Meanwhile, a little old lady relays how horrible life is in Siberia, where her relatives live. According to her, it's all the fault of the "fifth column" and Navalny.
Putin will rule Russia well after we are all dead, folks.

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