I sure wouldn't be stopping at protesting, at that point, I guess. If it comes down to supporting such a regime and its violent abuses, or opposing it, I'll take the latter.
The alternative is essentially saying that their torturing me was the right thing to do and I support them having done so. Which is obviously unreasonable.
Literally no different than trying to blame the whole blame for the Nazi Reich on Hitler and not the millions of Germans who slavishly supported his regime.THAT's why I just pin all the blame on Putin.
Sometimes, it's okay to recognize that Nazi fucks were Nazi fucks.