My grandfather was at some point in his life detained and questioned by state security for, according to him, making “anticommunist political jokes” at work. He is a raging racist and antisemite (his first reaction to hearing my partner’s last name was a concerned “Is he a Jew?”) and most probably fucking deserved it.
Western “I’m as left leaning as they come, but” types are making smug internet posts right fucking now about how cool and smart it is for the US to funnel arms into this conflict so that they can weaken Russia at little to no cost, while untrained 20 year olds are being sent to the slaughter.