[chimprich]

That's a stupid perspective. That's presumably Russia's self-reported numbers, not the actual numbers of people who were detained for speech Putin's regime didn't like. For example, in 2023, Alexei Navalny was sentenced to 19 years in a special regime colony, his lawyers were arrested, and then Navalny was murdered in prison.

[phatfish]

Don't bother, getting arrested and spending 2 hrs in a police station is the same as political prisoners going to a Siberian camp for 5 years, in the eyes of Americans.

It is scary how Trump has really taken over America. This war on European ideals is directly from Trump and Vance in the Whitehouse. Americans seem to be loving it.