This is how Russia treats their own people. Why some individuals thought Russia was not involved in the current conflict in Ukraine is beyond me. All the evidence aside, their own people are no better off. That speaks volumes to me.
Too bad that worse things are going to happen next, but we'll know of them only decades later, since now everyone is effectively silenced by fear.
Not so long ago we had "enemy of the people" term in Russia that was applied so broadly that significant portion of population was affected.
In US terrorist watch list grows out of proportion and no one knows who's in it and why.
In Soviet Union. That's kind of a different entity (for me at least).