The accompanying video tries all the tricks to make the small crowd look bigger, filming the same people from one side then the other, close, low angle shots to make it look like the camera is surrounded and the crowd stretches much further than it actually does.
It's also fairly amusing that they contradict themselves almost immediately as the video is headed "Hundreds gather for Navalny funeral"
Mentioned more times than I could count was the "heavy police presence". What? You mean like when the Queen was buried? When they were dragging people off for shouting anti-royal slogans or holding up blank pieces of paper? That kind of heavy police presence?
https://www.dumptheguardian.com/world/2024/mar/01/alexei-navalny-funeral-draws-thousands-to-heavily-policed-moscow-church
...no amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party...So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.
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