It’s far worse than that, and also applies to #Poland, regarding socialism, as one of my associates wrote: “ Difficult to feel sorry for anyone who was trying to become the next government and still live by forcing 100% of their funding from the productive captives. From following him and his supporters many years, clear that he would have at most tried to build a socialist, bureaucratic tyranny that exists in Europe, US, Canada, Australia, practically everywhere, except monarchies. That's straight from his collaborators among Russian economists - Milov, Guriev. Nothing else - besides that and the dictatorships that have existed in Russia for a thousand years - is possible there. “
What I heard was that Navalny was a fun guy who just wanted freedom and fun for everyone and that he wanted to become supreme leader of Russia for fun, for goodness, and for truth (kinda like Zelensky). I also heard that everyone in Russian politics is pure and wonderful except for Putin and anyone who doesn't condemn him.
Everyone in russian politics is controlled by putin/kgb/fsb. The whole political spectrum in russia exists only to make an illusion of democracy and to deliver putin's speech indirectly — just check out transcripts by Julia Davis' Russian Media Monitor https://youtube.com/@russianmediamonitor