[askvictor]

| He will be forgotten in a week, at least by the West.

He wasn't doing that for the amusement of the West; he was doing it for the Russians.

[maxlamb]

Sadly it will have as much of an impact on the Russians as any political martyr in any past dictatorship. And that is, almost certainly nothing.

[gustavus]

Maybe, but maybe not. Once there was a young man who became a martyr under an autocratic and bloodthirsty regime, this young man's name was Alexander Lenin. Although his death was not circulated in the newspapers, or widely known by many, there was one man who was changed by his death, his brother Vladamir, and his brother Vladmir did quite a bit to change the course of Russian history.

[lobocinza]

"Vladmir did quite a bit to change the course of Russian history"... for worse.

e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Terror