An appeal by Yulia Navalnaya. Alexei's work will continue. The fight for a free Russia will not stop
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00:00 Hi, this is Yulia Navalnaya.
00:03 Today, for the first time on this channel, I want to address you.
00:08 I shouldn't have been in this place.
00:11 I shouldn't have recorded this video.
00:14 There should be another person in my place.
00:17 But this person was killed by Vladimir Putin.
00:21 Three days ago, Vladimir Putin killed my husband, Alexei Navalny.
00:26 Putin killed the father of my children.
00:29 Putin took away the most precious thing I had,
00:33 the closest and most beloved person.
00:36 But Putin also took away Navalny from you.
00:39 Somewhere in a colony in the Far North,
00:42 beyond the Arctic Circle, in the eternal winter,
00:45 Putin did not just kill Alexei Navalny.
00:48 He, along with him, wanted to kill our hope,
00:52 our freedom, our future.
00:55 To destroy and bring to nothing the best evidence
00:59 that Russia can be different.
01:02 That we are strong, that we are brave,
01:05 that we believe and fight desperately and want to live differently.
01:09 Together we will turn our country into a beautiful Russia of the future.
01:23 All these years I have been with Alexei.
01:27 Elections, rallies, house arrest,
01:30 searches, detention, prisons,
01:33 poisoning, rallies again,
01:36 arrests and prisons again.
01:39 Here is our last meeting with him in mid-February 2022.
01:46 Our last photo.
01:48 Exactly two years later, Putin will kill him.
01:53 All these years I have been with Alexei.
01:56 I was happy to be with him and support him.
02:00 But today I want to be with you.
02:03 Because I know that you have lost no less than I have.
02:07 Alexei died in a colony after three years of torture and torture.
02:12 He didn't just sit, he didn't sit like others sit.
02:16 He was tortured, he was kept in a container,
02:19 in a concrete box.
02:21 Please just imagine.
02:23 This room is 6 or 7 square meters.
02:26 There is nothing in it except a stool,
02:29 sink, holes in the floor instead of a toilet,
02:32 and a bed that is fastened to the wall so that you cannot lie on it.
02:37 A mug, a book, one, and a toothbrush.
02:42 He had nothing else.
02:44 For hundreds of days.
02:46 They mocked him, cut him off from the world,
02:49 did not give him a pen and paper to write a letter to me or our children.
02:55 He was starved for three years.
02:59 And he did not give up.
03:01 He supported us all the time,
03:04 cheered us up, laughed, joked, inspired.
03:07 For a split second, he did not doubt what he was fighting for and what he was suffering for.
03:14 My husband could not be broken.
03:17 And that is exactly why Putin killed him.
03:20 Shamefully, cowardly, not daring to look him in the eye or just say his name.
03:27 And just as cowardly and meanly, they are now hiding his body,
03:31 not showing it to his mother, not giving it to her.
03:35 And they are sorry to lie and wait for the traces of another Putin's newbie to disappear.
03:42 We know why Putin killed Alexei three days ago.
03:48 We will tell you about it soon.
03:50 We will definitely find out who exactly and how exactly committed this crime.
03:57 We will name the names and show the faces.
04:00 But the main thing we can do for Alexei and for ourselves is to continue to fight.
04:07 More desperate, more furious than before.
04:10 I know, it seems that it is no longer possible, but we need more.
04:15 To get together in one strong fist and hit this mad regime,
04:21 Putin, his friends, the bandits in the shoulders, the thieves and the murderers who crippled our country.
04:29 I know, I feel that you are torn apart by part of the question.
04:34 But why did he return?
04:36 Why did he voluntarily throw himself into the hands of those who had almost killed him once?
04:42 Why such a sacrifice?
04:44 After all, he could have lived in peace, taken care of himself, his family.
04:48 He could not speak, not investigate, not speak and not fight.
04:53 But he could not.
04:55 Alexei loved Russia most of all in the world.
04:59 He loved our country, you.
05:02 He believed in us, in our strength, in our future, in what we are worthy of the best.
05:09 He did not believe in words, but in deeds.
05:12 So deeply and sincerely that he was ready to give his life for it.
05:18 And his great love.
05:20 We have enough to continue his cause.
05:23 As long as it takes.
05:26 As furious and as brave as Alexei did.
05:30 I have no other country.
05:33 I have nowhere to retreat.
05:35 There is no other country.
05:37 There is no other Moscow.
05:39 There is no other family.
05:41 There is no other people except you.
05:43 Everyone is thinking now.
05:45 But where to take this strength?
05:47 How to live on?
05:49 This is where we will take strength.
05:51 In his memory.
05:53 In his ideas.
05:55 In his thoughts.
05:57 In his unbreakable faith in us.
05:59 I will look for my strength in this.
06:02 After killing Alexei, Putin killed half of me.
06:06 Half of my heart.
06:08 And half of my soul.
06:10 But I have the other half left.
06:13 And she tells me that I have no right to give up.
06:17 Do not be silent.
06:19 Resist.
06:20 Go out into the streets.
06:22 No one but us will protect us.
06:25 And there are so many of us.
06:27 We will achieve something.
06:29 We will achieve it.
06:31 I will continue the case of Alexei Navalny.
06:34 I will continue to fight for our country.
06:37 And I urge you to stand by me.
06:40 To share not only grief and endless pain.
06:43 Which has enveloped us and does not let us go.
06:46 I ask you to share with me the rage.
06:49 Rage, anger, hatred of those who dared to kill our future.
06:55 I appeal to you in the words of Alexei, in which I very much believe.
07:00 It is not a shame to do little.
07:02 It is a shame not to do anything.
07:04 It is a shame to let yourself be intimidated.
07:07 We need to use every opportunity.
07:11 To fight against war.
07:13 Against corruption.
07:15 Against injustice.
07:17 To fight for fair elections and freedom of speech.
07:21 To fight to return our country to ourselves.
07:25 I understand what I am fighting for.
07:28 I am fighting for a new future.
07:32 For my family, for my children.
07:35 Russia is free, peaceful, happy.
07:39 Beautiful Russia of the future.
07:41 My husband dreamed of it so much.
07:44 This is what we need.
07:46 I want to live in such a Russia.
07:48 I want our children to live in it with Alexei.
07:52 I want to build it with you.
07:55 Just as Alexei Navalny imagined it.
07:59 Full dignity, justice and love.
08:03 Only in this way and no other way.
08:06 The unthinkable sacrifice that he brought can become worthwhile.
08:13 Fight and do not give up.
08:16 I am not afraid and you are not afraid of anything.
08:20 We are strong.
08:22 All you need to celebrate evil is the inaction of good people.
08:27 Therefore, you should not be inactive.
08:31 The Russian Federation is a non-profit organization.
08:34 We are not responsible for the actions of the Russian Federation.
08:37 We are responsible for the actions of the Russian Federation.
08:40 We are responsible for the actions of the Russian Federation.
08:43 We are responsible for the actions of the Russian Federation.
08:46 We are responsible for the actions of the Russian Federation.
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