Depends how much of the anti-Russian propaganda you buy into, I suppose.
Not that I'm in any way suggesting that the current Russian Government isn't actively and enthusiastically repressive when it comes to outspoken members of the population exercising anti-war/anti-Putin rhetoric - but the suggestion that anyone remotely critical of the current regime is whisked away in the night and tossed into a Gulag for the rest of their natural lives sounds a little too much like bad '80s movie to me.
The Navalny documentary paints a pretty accurate picture of Putin's Russia in my opinion. Certainly not the kind of place where protest and dissent is encouraged by any means, and about as far-detached from the bastion of liberalist societal and political freedoms that is Ukraine - but hardly North Korea, either.
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"Russia - We're not as bad as North Korea!"™
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 4 May 2023, 12:38,
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Only just, mind.
Totally reliable figures from both sides, I'm sure.
(, Thu 4 May 2023, 13:22, Reply)