All the tsars ordered political crimes, but Ivan IV Vasilievich He was the greatest exponent of criminality in Tsarist Russia. That’s why they called him “the Terrible.” All Soviet leaders, with the possible exception of Gorbachev, ordered political crimes, but Stalin It was the greatest expression of the criminality of communist totalitarianism.
Between the last decades of the 20th century and those of the 21st century, many world leaders will have ordered assassinations, but no one can dispute Putin’s image as a serial killer.
Saddam Hussein He was a psychopath who enjoyed ordering murders and, like his son Uday, also liked to do it with his own hands. But even this bloodthirsty Iraqi dictator tried to be polite before the world, unless it involved massacring Shiites and Kurds. Instead Vladimir Putin flaunts his murders.
The question is not whether the president of Russia killed his arch-enemy Alexei Navalny. The question is why he ordered a crime that would bear his signature. With the long list of people who challenged him and ended up poisoned, riddled with bullets, falling from buildings and sinking private planes, if something shouldn’t happen to his main challenger, it is dying. However, he died.
By the way, the body was not delivered to the family in a timely manner nor were there guarantees for a credible autopsy. The mother of the dissident turned martyr traveled to the Siberian prison, but she did not manage to see the body of her son. She was denied the right that is not denied to anyone. Lyudmila Navalnaya He embodied what Antigone represented, claiming the barren body of her brother Polynices from King Creon, in the drama written by Sophocles.
If it had not been a murder ordered by Vladimir Putinthe author of this crime presented as “sudden death” could only be a visceral enemy of the head of the Kremlin, who murdered Navalny so that the world would have one more reason to consider Putin a serial killer.
But an enemy of the Russian president has no chance of committing a crime in the remote prison in the Arctic Circle called the “Siberian Wolf.” Navalny It was exclusively within the reach of the despot who reigns over Russia and it was his decision to protect that life on which his image before the world and history depended, or to once again give free rein to his criminal incontinence.
The question remains why Putin decided a death that only he could decide, knowing that, although they cannot say it, there are no Russians who believe that the greatest exponent of dissidence died naturally, and also knowing that no ruler in the world would doubt his authorship for a second. Which was verified immediately, because before the body of the new martyr had cooled, hundreds of accusatory fingers in Russia and the world were pointing towards the Kremlin.
If Navalny had more than three decades of imprisonment ahead of him, why did he decide to kill him? This question is linked to another: why Navalny decided to return to Russia from Germany, where they saved his life from the Novichoc poisoning he had suffered in Siberia, also by order of Putin, knowing that he would remain within the reach of the executioner who had him attacked with chemical agents three times.
The decision of that lawyer who denounced gigantic cases of corruption at the top of power was equivalent to suicide. He knew, and said it many times, that Putin could try to kill him, which he would no doubt easily accomplish within arm’s reach of him.
The only thing that could stop him is the certainty that all the Russians and the rulers of the world would attribute this new execution of a dissident to him. Even his allies or those who, due to business with the Eurasian giant, prefer to remain silent. There is no way to believe, really, that Progozhin’s plane broke down in mid-flight and that Navalny died from sudden death syndrome, as the official report states.
The statistic of dead dissidents points to the head of the Kremlin with unequivocal accuracy.
If Putin was capable of assassinating someone who had been a friend and partner, like Yevgeny Prigozhin, whom he did not forgive for the rebellion of the Wagne Groupr against the generalate, it would be much less difficult for him to order the death of the dissident who made the most serious accusations against him and who had become his most powerful enemy.
Suspicions that Putin eliminates his enemies by assassinating them began with the deaths of liberal deputies Boris Golovliov and Sergei Yushenkov. He took the form of certainty when the journalist was shot Ana Politkovskayathe former intelligence agent Aleksander Litvinenko was poisoned with a radioactive agent and the “oligarch” Boris Berezovski was found hanged.
With the deaths of Prigozhin and Navalny there is no longer any room for doubt. The certainty is absolute. Unless Putin contains a curse like that of the pharaohs’ treasures in the pyramids, whose outragers died for a mysterious design.
If the Russian president chose to commit a crime that would inexorably be attributed to him, instead of leaving him imprisoned and disqualified from competing in elections and continuing to investigate the corruption of power, it is because the alternative seemed more dangerous to him.
What danger could Alexei Navalny represent in prison? Become a Russian version of Mandela.
That South African leader defeated the powerful racist regime of the white minority from a prison where he spent almost three decades. It was in cell 466/64 of the island prison off Cape Town where the lawyer and leader of the African National Congress, Nelson Mandela became an invincible giant for apartheid. That is what could have happened to the Moscow lawyer who, in a heroic immolation, decided to return from Germany, where he was safe, to fight on Russian territory against a despot who in power became a serial killer.
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