Hi, I’ve recently made a post about Javier Milei’s book https://www.reddit.com/r/Libertarian/s/f9pz6HVaxm, so I decided that it is good idea to tell fellow libertarians about the books, which I think useful to read and which can give us some fresh, extra ideas and will expand our worldview. I also would like to have express my thoughts somewhere and it is a perfect place seems to me
So, as a person from Belarus, Navalny was a hero of my generation, he is a person why I am interested in politics, I deeply remembered how I, being a history geek teenager, first discovered his investigations in YouTube, about how politicians shamefully stealing money from people to build a mansions, buy yachts, hiring prostitutes, hypocritically sending their lovely children to receive education in West, while hating Europe and US in propaganda. I deeply remembered how I was watching with my family his return to Russia after poisoning, how we discussed with my classmates Putin’s palace that Navalny discovered. I deeply remembered how reading his funny, sarcastic letters from prison(once, being in a punishment cell he wrote prank letter to prison administration to give him a cangaroo as a cell mate, and because of protocol they were obligated to send a response why they can’t give him a cangaroo), gave me strength, hope and believe that everything will be great.
And of course after his murder I was fully shocked, devastated, paralysed, cried for 2 days. But as Navalny himself said in case of his death: “Don’t give up. If they kill me that means that they are fear us and our large strength, which we can’t recognise yet”. And of course, when his memoirs was published I read them.
It is a great book. Brilliantly described his childhood and ordinary soviet live with its constant stagnation and hypocrisity in all aspects of life: rock-n-roll was recognised as “degenerative” art, in the “proletariat” state profession of worker was recognised as the most shameful job by soviet society, because of regulations of prices there were deficit and long queues in shops, not saying about that such a simple things as a bubble gum or coca-cola were recognised as gold by soviet kids because they didn’t exist in USSR.
In the book Navalny comes as an example of ordinary person, patriot, who just tired of that shit he sees and where his country is going so he decided to act. This is a really biography of fighter. He also is very frank about his mistakes he’s done in his yearly ages, and as politician, what makes you feel empathy for him for telling truth about himself. But after autobiography there are his prison diary that hits really really hard, but it demonstrate how badass and strong he was.
I highly recommend to read this book cause we should learn be brave and uncompromising to corruption from him. Like Navalny brilliantly said: “Socialism can’t produce anything. The only thing it is efficient in is only creation of propaganda and lies”
P.S: you also can ask me everything about him
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