How child play and naive you're thinking of politics. If Russia ever had that degree of power to control the behavior of its citizens, it would have already ruled the world.
You can't even fully control a 5-person band and you're telling us that magically Russia is able to control millions of people, amongst which none of them know justice or human rights enough to leak any info. You know, even under the infamous assassin attempts from FBI, Snowden managed to flee to Russia. How can Russia be more powerful than the US in this way?
I'm not saying good words to any regime. I mean both the US sanction and the Russian invasion suck. I don't want another country bossing over what you can do, and I don't want another country pointing guns on your head either.