Good to hear that it is not an attack.
However the Soviet period is essentially irrelevant in this regard as I was born in 1992 and missed it.
As to the current time line it is easy to disprove this:
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I was simply commenting on what you said. Under Putin, little has changed there as people who challenge the Putin Govt usually don't meet with a good ending. Then again, Putin was KGB.
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statement by presenting various examples of operating opposition media, such this:
https://echo.msk.ru/ radio station (which is an opposion radio station owned by Gazprom media) and
https://www.novayagazeta.ru/ newspaper as examples of anti-Putin (and anti-establishment in general) federal media outlets operating legally in Russia, there are many more. In fact not only do we have media with opposition views or foreighn roots (such as
https://www.vedomosti.ru/ newspaper which is in alliance with the WSJ and FT), we even have VoA and RFE operating in Russia, which are cold war era propaganda outlets.
Overall I think that the nature of the Russian "regime" unfortunately is not well presented by foreighn observers (especially dissidents).
As to it being a game, sure it is a game and sinking civilians is no different to slaying dragons, that is - a person should not be held responsible for his ingame actions (except maybe when one say drives a minor to suicide in an online game). However the games does depict the historic events in a much simmilar way non interactive media (films, books, old news articles, in fact the later are sometimes used in the game to add flavor, no?) would and as such I view it as an object of the same nature as a present day news article.