You may want to read up a bit of you think things are as bad here as they were under Stalin.
I lived in the FSU for many years. I am intimately aware of its history.
Mike Flynn and Roger Stone would have been treated no worse in the USSR than they have been here. The police state tactics, bankrupting, blacklisting, etc., are very similar, actually.
Start with reading up on the gulags... Pay particular attention to how many survived them.
That our future if we don’t fight.