Anyone who attempted to stand up to Stalin's lies was eliminated. Anyone who attempted to stand up to Hitler's lies was eliminated. Anyone who tries to stand up to Xi's lies is crushed. Putin will crush all internal opposition. That's simply Job One for all tyrants. Change can only be imposed from the outside, but NATO has already conceded defeat in advance. Putin will die of whatever disease has caused him to move precipitously, and after he dies Russia will likely collapse into several smaller states, each run by one of his thuggish buddies from his Sankt-Piterburg days. Before then, however, a great many people will die.