The person that could answer that is no longer with us, MLK.
Not even close to analogous.
To give you an idea of Chabad history in Russia/USSR would take far too long, but some of the people you are conversing with had grandparents and great grandparents sent to the gulag or killed. Their uncles, aunts, cousins, etc. Spoke out against Stalin and risked their lives, literally, to save others. The names of cities being spoken about in the news are familiar to us all. We grew up hearing them, and how our families suffered and sacrificed to fight against the regime.
Many of us have relatives in the Ukraine and Russia. I have second cousins there, my wife has many. This isn't a thought exercise for us.
Trust me, if Berel Lazar is not speaking up, it's not because Chabad Shluchim lack courage. If he had to die to save a Jew in Charkov, he'd do it without blinking.