Alexei Navalny’s speech at the rally at Chistye Prudy in Moscow
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Hello, everyone.
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>> While I was climbing over the fence to
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get into this rally, I forgot everything I
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wanted to say. We are waiting.
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>> We are waiting.
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>> There are literally another 2,000 people standing over there,
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waiting.
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>> There are different kinds of people here who
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followed different strategies in this
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election. I want to ask, I want to
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identify those here who
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voted. Raise your hands, those who
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came and cast their ballot.
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I want to say thank you.
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>> Thank you for feeling like
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citizens.
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Thank you
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>> for telling those bastards: we
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exist.
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>> For telling Bearded Churov (Vladimir Churov, then head of Russia’s Central Election Commission),
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and his bosses: we exist.
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>> Yes,
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>> we have our votes.
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We exist.
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>> Yes,
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>> we exist.
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>> Yes.
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>> They hear this voice, and they are afraid.
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>> They can laugh from their zombie box (a slang term for television).
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They can call us
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microbloggers
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or internet hamsters.
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I’m an internet hamster.
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Yes,
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>> I’ll tear those animals’ throats out.
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>> We’ll all do it together. Yes,
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>> because we exist. Yes.
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>> I don’t understand why I came to my
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polling station, voted,
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and then some guy stood next to me and
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said, "You voted for United
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Russia."
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>> No. And I say, "No,
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>> I want you to say it." Did you
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vote for the ruling party? No.
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>> Did you?
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>> No.
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>> What is that party called?
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>> The party of crooks and thie...
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>> The party of crooks and
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>> thieves.
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>> The party of crooks and thieves.
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>> The party of crooks and thieves.
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These people should be afraid of us, and they
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must understand that we hate them. We
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say it over and over. Some people may think
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it’s a joke: "We will not forget and we will not
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forgive." But we will not forget and we will not forgive.
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>> Will we forget?
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>> No.
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>> Will we forgive?
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>> No.
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>> We will not forget. We will not forgive.
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>> No. We will not forgive.
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>> We will not forget.
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>> We will not forgive. We will not forget. We will not forgive. We will not
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forget, we will not forgive. We will not forget, we will not
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forgive. We will not forget, we will not forgive. We will not
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forget, we will not forgive.
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>> And maybe they tell us that it’s
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bad that we were united not by some
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positive agenda, but by an enemy.
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Yes, we were united by an enemy.
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We are sitting in our own apartment,
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>> and some guy comes in and starts rummaging through it
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right in front of us and says, "Relax,
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relax, just watch TV,
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I’m just going to look through your nightstand a little
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more here."
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>> And I’ll just take your fur coat while I’m at it. Rat!
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>> That is an enemy, and we hate him. Rat,
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ra...
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>> they must understand that clearly.
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>> We will keep coming, voting, and
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defending our votes.
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>> But besides this enemy, there is one more
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important thing,
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>> that deep down, many of us still
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have this nagging thought somewhere inside:
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"So what, we came, held a rally, and
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went home."
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>> No.
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>> We shouted and went home.
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>> No.
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>> We shouted and forgot.
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>> No.
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>> They’re just hamsters.
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>> No.
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They’re nobody.
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>> No.
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>> But we have these so-called cosmonauts in
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camouflage uniforms. And so we are the power. But
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we say that the power is us.
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>> After these elections,
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>> the Kremlin crooks do not have a single
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>> right to say, "We are the power." They are nobody.
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>> One is pathetic, the other is puffed up.
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>> Yes.
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Pathetic and puffed up.
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>> Pathetic and puffed up.
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>> We do not need this government.
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>> We do not need crooks and thieves. We want
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a different president, not a crook and a thief.
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>> A different president, not a crook and a
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>> thief.
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>> A different president, not a pathetic crook and thief.
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You know, when I give my speeches,
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>> and, I repeat, I shouted: "This is a risky experiment.
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This is probably a liberal crowd here,
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for the most part." But I will repeat this
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chant. Putin is a thief! Putin is a thief! Putin
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is a thief! Putin is a thief! Putin is a thief! Putin is a thief!
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Putin is a thief! Putin is a thief! Putin is a thief! Putin
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is a thief! Putin is a thief! Putin is a thief! Putin is a thief!
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Putin is a thief! He hates hearing that!
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>> But it will get even more unpleasant. So, an important
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thing, without which we will achieve
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nothing.
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We must understand
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that one for all, and all for one.
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>> There is no other option. One for all, and all
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for one.
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>> One for all
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>> and all for one.
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>> One for all
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>> and all for one.
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>> Well, you see, it works not only at the
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Russian March (an annual Russian nationalist demonstration). We will win because we
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are right, we are here, we exist—one for
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all
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>> and all for one.