"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
Alexei Anatolievich Navalny was a Russian opposition leader, anti-corruption activist, and lawyer who became the most prominent critic of Vladimir Putin's government. For more than a decade he documented the vast machinery of state corruption, built a nationwide movement of volunteers, and refused — again and again — to leave his country despite prison, poison, and the certainty of what awaited him.
He was murdered in an Arctic penal colony on 16 February 2024, aged 47, still fighting.
Somewhere on the meadow in this park — the one glimpsed in the film below — he once changed his shirt. The sleeves of the new one, like every shirt before it, were immediately rolled up to the elbows: ready, as always, to keep working against evil, corruption, and tyranny. A small, wordless gesture that said everything about the man.
Documentary
Starts at 29 : 15 — the park scene.