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You got that right, it's an unenviable position for them. Like so many before, Maidan comes to mind, or Iran today.
Wargasm is the only permitted way to express yourself. >

A 17 year old Russian was recently jailed as a terrorist for antiwar remarks he said in SCHOOL >

Russians with conscience are really risking their lives under Putin's autocratic rule.  At the least those arrested will spend time in jail and then released.  Some may end up even worse by "disappearing" after arrest never to reappear in public. >

Better, I suggest, that those with a conscious know they are in a bad place anyway, and just skip the middleman and not use words anymore.  It is harsh, yes, but at some point you just gotta admit to yourself that if you are willing to do ANYTHING, you will die.  So you may as well do everything you can do.  
Hopefully with a bullet to major leadership assets, up to and including Putin. >

Yeah, because for people with dependents, that's such an easy thing to do.
People on this site are brilliant at saying what people who live under the Putin regime "should do". Whilst being completely divorced from the practicalities of the reality they face. 
All talk of people "banding together" forgets that one of those people may be sympathetic to the regime, and then everyone in the group is suddenly disappeared. 
The naivety is staggering. >

Yeah, let’s not forget that many of these people have lived through the Soviet Union, and they had entire lists of people they would be assassinating in order to keep power. I’d be scared too. >

Anyone pro Russia have been punished for being pro Russia. >

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People are being fined on an almost daily basis, mainly under the law on 'bringing the army into disrepute.
On January, 15, proceedings were initiated for "Bringing the army into disrepute" against the DJ of a bar in Tula who played a Ukrainian song during Vladimir Putin's New Year's Eve message.
On January 20, a truck driver from Chuvashia, on the left bank of the Volga, was fined 30,000 rubles for bringing the army into disrepute after having marked as "Interesting" two videos, one of which was about "The truth about the Ukrainian bombardment of the Donbass over the past eight years," on the Odnoklassniki social media platform.


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Wow! He marked a video as “interesting”… GUILTY
That is nuts >

That's living in an autocracy. People on this site aren't quite getting what that entails and HOW restrictive it is. >

Russians need to figure something out. They're either going to meaningfully resist in their communities or they'll find themselves in cattle cars to Ukraine. >

The choice is "do we do nothing, or do we do something."
The nature of the "something" no longer matters.  Which is a critical point, as those who would normally just use a sign and complain on the street can no longer do so without the same punishment as someone who actually shot at an officer or FSB member or politician.  
It is at such a point that higher ups will start dying, if they still have any semblance of proper civilization left.