- being told "welcome to what several us here have experienced" is not very helpful to me. I hope it makes you feel better to know that others are suffering what you suffered. But what I could use is some advice, written by scientists who lived under authoritarian rule, for scientists who have to do this.
*Personally* I am not surprised. I planned ahead, I got a job outside the US, and I'm going to leave soon. I'm going to give a talk to scientists who are (currently) planning to stay in the US, and I would like to educate myself as much as possible before I give this talk.