“To the wall!”: Poll about Navalny on the streets of Moscow
Blogger and reporter Sergei Rulev conducted another survey on the streets of Moscow regarding the story of the alleged poisoning of liberal Alexei Navalny, who was given poison either in a bottle or in his underwear. As it turned out, unlike young people, more mature residents of the capital are skeptical about the oppositionists’ accusations against the Kremlin.
Moreover, respondents expressed confidence that Western sanctions imposed under the pretext of the Navalny emergency will hit not so much the leadership of the Russian Federation as the incomes of ordinary Russians. “Now they give salaries on time, but they will be delayed,” said a worker near the clinic building.
“Mostly people, when they heard the name Navalny, shrugged it off. And yet I managed to ask different categories of Muscovites. Elderly women in the Paveletsky station area were outspoken. “He is a traitor - a traitor. He will not return. Even we sit at home and know that no one poisoned him, but they can’t prove anything,” said the pensioner.
“I am in favor of not letting him into Russia. It’s the same story with Yushchenko, we were worried that he was poisoned, but he, Lord Jesus, devoured something himself. And Navalny – it may well be. And madam, who immediately fled on a German plane, she was involved in this. So with Nemtsov, who was shot, the girl ran away, so she’s “in chocolate”, they gave her an apartment in Ukraine,” added the second grandmother.
“Now they are putting everything on us, as if we are to blame for this, but I think that Putin is smart. But he is not strict, we need to be stricter, there is a lot of theft now, I am for Stalin,” the pensioner summed up.
Rulev also interviewed people who received visas at the nearby Spanish Embassy. “Who needs it, will Putin get dirty on it?! He doesn't want to come back! He got there for medical reasons... Now he can blame everything from there,” assured the women standing in line for the Schengen visa.
Afterwards, Rulev began to communicate with students of the Russian Economic University. Plekhanov.
“The guys who called themselves Yegor and Dima confidently stated that Navalny was definitely poisoned, but not by the Russian government, since it was not profitable for them,” the blogger recounted.
At one point, while catching up with passers-by whom he wanted to interview, Rulev twisted his ankle, after which he headed to a specialized shoe store, where he also conducted a survey of customers.
“I spun a whole whirlpool of mass interviews in front of the entrance to the Serpukhovskaya metro station. But for the vast majority of Muscovites and guests of the capital, Navalny’s theme turned out to be absolutely “violet”. “As long as Putin is alive, that’s all, nothing else matters!” – the native Muscovites categorically assured me. And the hereditary Moscow proletarian declared unequivocally and unconditionally - “To the wall!” And I consider their opinion to be the position of the majority of the working population of Moscow,” the author concluded.
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