Frank Sinatra’s ‘My Way’ at Navalny’s funeral

Alexei Sorokin
4 min readMar 2, 2024

Today Navalny was buried to Frank Sinatra’s My Way from the final moments of Terminator 2.

The comments section to the song on YouTube is becoming a digital mural where many Russians are expressing their remembrance of Navalny.

This version too:

The word ‘sad’ doesn’t describe the sense of sorrow that the image of Navalny’s dead body evokes. Bigger than life. Then Death shrinks it all — the largeness of life, life, and body. Or does it? There is history in this image. It’s for the ages. Or maybe not. Maybe it’s just a fleeting moment that reminds of how everything ends.

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Alexei Sorokin

A Russian immigrant in America, father of 4, Cambridge and Harvard Business School alum. I run and write every day. https://runningwritingliving.substack.com/