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Isn't amazing that Vladimir Putin always wins elections to the tune of 99% of the voters? One might assume that he never has any opposition nor anyone else even running for office. Enter Alexei Navalny. This is a guy who cares about Russia and seeks the overturn of Putin's corrupt government. In 2020 while traveling, he was hospitalized in Germany for poisoning by a nerve agent. While the Russian government did everything they could to prevent Alexei's wife from seeing him, and waiting until the poison had cleared his system to even allow for testing, his wife brought the attention of the world to this abhorrent situation. Once the poisoning was confirmed, a team of journalists went to work to confirm that Putin was the one who ordered it and that Russian scientists were involved. In one of the greatest scenes in movie history, a scientist is caught on tape confessing to the crime (and never heard from again...) and even the team can't believe it. The thing that is so compelling about this story is how Navalny never gives up. Even when he knows for sure that his personal freedoms are threatened, he returns to Russia again and again. He fully expects to be assassinated, and his message to Russians continues to be that old Edmund Burke line, "The only thing necessary for evil to triumph in the world is that good men do nothing." He, and his family who are along for the ride, are truly modern day heroes. What an incredible film.
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