(#5494) Will the Russian people now realize they are being duped by putin?

      I know how nationalism works. Being for your country is a no brainer. It is like what we have here in America on a lesser scale with republicans. Core republican supporters cannot be convinced to look at their party as lesser despite a mountain of evidence that shows they are lesser. The cognitive dissonance that takes hold is so much more stronger than logic. Same with nations. The Russian people think that through their information services that they are the ones who are deciding the agenda and policies of their nation when in fact they are not. Same with republicans here.
     But in the history of our great nations and traditional political party's there are moments in time that can galvanize our populaces to an awakening that proves to be the undoing of those who had been working to confuse us. That moment started yesterday for putin in Russia. A hard cold slap in the face of the Russian people was the news that Alexei Navalny had died in prison. He had been previously poisoned by putin stooges and then placed in prison on politically motivated charges. His death at the age of 47 is not in line with how the Russian high command indicated and his body not being released to his family has further caused the putin fault line of distrust to widen.
     Alexei Navalny recorded a video of what he wanted his countrymen to do upon his coming death as he surely knew that putin and his brutal kremlin allies were not the kind of people to tolerate dissent. I can somewhat imagine the pain of losing such a great man of vision for what the Russian state could be instead of what it currently is now. Will this be enough for the Russian people for finally say enough along with over 400,000 of their countrymen dead in Ukraine? I don't know but these things need to be reconciled and now is the time to do it. Russia still has a pathway to peace but the leadership of Russia is not going to be part of that, so change must come from within. That momentum is built from shock and anger so hopefully too many young Russians dying and one such as Alexei Navalny being killed will make the Russian people rise up and reclaim their dignity and honor.