Alexei Navalny’s speech at a rally in St. Petersburg
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And now, my friends, I want to introduce
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to you a man we have been waiting for a long time, and
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who has finally come to join us. Alexei
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Navalny.
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>> Hello, city of three revolutions. Hello.
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>> Is it time for a fourth one?
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>> Yes or no? Yes.
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>> Yes or no? Yes,
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>> they try to scare us with the word revolution.
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On the zombie box (slang for television), they show nothing anymore
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except the horrors of revolution.
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Sailors are running through the streets, cars are
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burning.
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But that is not how it is. We know what kind of
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revolution we want.
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Let us tell them about our peaceful
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revolution.
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What does our peaceful revolution mean?
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>> Something very simple. Power to the people.
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We want
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>> the right and the left, the reds and the greens,
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to receive exactly as many votes as they
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have earned.
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As many votes as the people gave them, not
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as many votes as the crooks and thieves decided
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to leave them in the election
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commission.
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>> Who is afraid of our peaceful revolution?
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The crooks.
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>> Our peaceful revolution
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is feared by that guy who gave up
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his Russian citizenship, latched onto
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Russian oil, and lives in Switzerland.
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Our peaceful revolution
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is feared by those guys who build
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pipelines for Gazprom at seven times the real cost.
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Our revolution
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is feared by that thieving auntie who made
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her son a billionaire
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>> and somehow rode a little red speech into
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Moscow.
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>> Our revolution is feared by the khans in the North
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Caucasus, who have surrounded themselves with some kind of
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basmachi (bandit-like fighters). Whether they are police or gangsters, who can tell.
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Yes, they are afraid of us.
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>> And rightly so.
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They should be afraid of us,
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because yes, we will make this peaceful
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revolution happen.
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>> Yes or no? Yes.
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>> Should they be afraid of us?
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>> Yes.
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>> We need the voice of the city of Piter (St. Petersburg).
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>> For a very simple reason. I am standing in this
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square, and I see many thousands of witnesses,
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because you can feed nonsense to
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state employees in the city of Moscow.
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But you know that this gang of thieves has been in power since
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1991, right?
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>> Because they have been robbing you since
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1991. Yes,
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>> these fighters against the cursed nineties—what
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>> were they doing here in those cursed
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nineties?
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>> Were they fighting to restore
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the Soviet Union?
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>> No.
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>> Were they fighting against the collapse of the army?
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>> No.
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>> Against the war in Chechnya?
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>> No.
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>> Against civil war?
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>> No.
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>> No. They were trading precious
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metals here.
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>> They were also dealing in
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medical equipment.
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>> They latched onto the comforts of power.
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As early as 1996, they were already
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rigging things for the then party of
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crooks and thieves, Our Home Is Russia.
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>> You know. You are witnesses. So tell
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the rest of the country who these people are.
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Today I heard a chant from you here:
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"Crooks and thieves, you have 5 minutes to pack."
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>> Crooks and thieves,
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>> 5 minutes to pack.
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>> Crooks and thieves,
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>> 5 minutes to pack.
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>> Crooks and thieves,
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>> 5 minutes to pack.
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>> This is the power of spiders and rats sitting
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in a dark corner.
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>> They are afraid of the light. Right now, Piter (St. Petersburg) is a
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candle.
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Maybe it is a flashlight. But we want
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Piter to become a searchlight that
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tells the whole country about these people. You are
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witnesses.
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The whole country needs Piter's voice.
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>> We have the Aurora.
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>> You have the Aurora.
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Yes, you do have the Aurora (the historic cruiser associated with the 1917 Revolution).
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>> And they are afraid.
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That is a real ship.
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That is a real ship, not the one
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they are protecting.
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>> I do not want the man who
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rules my country to be called a tsar.
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And I do not want the man who
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rules my country to be called a coward. And
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most importantly, I do not want the whole world
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to know that at the head of our country stands
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a thief.
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>> What is that man's name?
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>> Putin is a thief.
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>> Putin is a thief.
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>> Piter must say that Putin is a thief.
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>> Putin is a thief
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>> to the whole country: Putin is a
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>> thief.
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>> Putin
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>> is a th...
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>> Putin
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>> is a th... Putin out! Putin out! Putin out!
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Putin out! Putin out! Putin out! Putin
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out! Putin ou!
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>> So then, Piter is for everyone, and everyone is for Piter.
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>> One city for the whole country, and the whole country for
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that city.
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One for all and all 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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I know who can defeat Putin and all of
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this thieving regime.
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>> Not Navalny, not Udaltsov, and not
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Kasparov. It's you, you, and you. No one
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else is going to help you. On the fourth, you yourselves
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must go serve as election observers at your polling
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station.
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And in the remaining week, you yourselves should call
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your grandmother and your aunt.
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>> Your uncle in Tyumen and your nephew in Tver, and
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tell them what you yourselves have witnessed: that
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this government is made up of crooks and thieves.
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>> Only you
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can defeat this regime, and you will
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do it. Yes or no?
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>> Yes.
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>> They're afraid, and rightly so. Yes or no?
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>> Yes.
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>> You sent these people to us. Sorry to say it,
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of course.
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You brought them into being,
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>> but you will be the ones to destroy them too.
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>> You know everything about them.
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>> Let's wipe out the crooks and thieves. Let's start
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doing it with St. Petersburg. Yes.
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>> Everything is in our hands. No one but us. One
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for all.
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>> And all for one.
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>> We will win. Yes.
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>> Well done.
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Well done,
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well done,
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well done.