Dto Italian I am ashamed of how my country reacted to the death of Alexei Navalny. A government party, the League, climbed on the windows to avoid blaming Putin. Even the Prime Minister and the secretary of the Democratic Party were not too shocked (the most vigorous political initiative was taken by Carlo Calenda).
The police identified the handful of people who had gathered in Milan to lay a flower (Let’s not kid ourselves: identification is a form of intimidation and filing).
The city council of Rome, with a centre-left majority, he rejected the idea of naming the street in front of the Russian embassy after Navalny: the way will be there, but elsewhere; shame, because it would have represented the reminder of a crime. Others evoke Assange: it is noble and right to defend him from life imprisonment; but that’s a whole other story.
Aldo Cazzullo (photo by Carlo Furgeri Gilbert).
What remains of Navalny? Now two women remain of the dead dissident. The wife and the mother. They will be the ones to collect the legacy. His wife, Yulia Borisovna Navalnaya, is an important woman: economist, political activist, after the death of her husband she is in fact the leader of the Russian opposition to the dictator Putin. The first party to nominate her for the European Parliament will do something extraordinarily timely.
Mother, Lyudmila Navalnaya, released a video with an appeal to Putin to return her son’s body to her. A form of civilization as old as man, as you wrote well Venanzio Postiglione on the Corriere della Sera.
Achilles returned the broken body of his son Hector to Priam, after a merciless duel. In the end, after nine days the body was returned, but now it remains to be seen whether Putin will allow Navalny to have a memory, a cult.
It’s certainly not surprising let the torch of the battle for the dignity of man pass from hand to hand, from generation to generation, thanks to women. This is why in the long run the battle will be won.
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