Past Perfect use
Please explain what the use of past perfect means here? Is it a background to the sentence "All of this comes together in Alexey Navalny, the democrat who breathed the independence of the Internet, but marched with fascists every year screaming ‘stop feeding the Caucasus’" ? Thanks a lot!
"He summed up the paradoxical consequences of Putinism. The propaganda that the Kremlin's relentless PR machine had been feeding Russia had left it a much angrier and more Islamophobic country than Yeltsin left it. Yet that same Kremlin's overarching projects to build a ‘United Russia state’ with a tame television system had left the country far more anti-authoritarian and sure of its commitment to free speech and a fair vote than it had been in the 1990s. All of this comes together in Alexey Navalny, the democrat who breathed the independence of the Internet, but marched with fascists every year screaming ‘stop feeding the Caucasus’"
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e. e. the statements report the content of his summing up.
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- the statements report the content of his summing up.
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The past perfect is relative to "He summed up", i.e. these things happened prior to the time of "summed up", or it can be construed as backshifting in reported speech, i.e. the statements report the content of his summing up.
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