It seems you just absorbed the Red Scare propaganda and didn't really read about Stalin or USSR. Not saying that Stalin was a saint or that USSR was flawless, just that certain things are exaggarated or fake. I'd recommend you to checkout the book called "Blackshirts and Reds".

You are dooming about people not having enough tech to oppose, well, why don't you do something about it? We can have all the AI that they have, maybe lagging behind a bit but nonetheless good enough. Check out Bloom on huggingface. We can build distributed open source infrastracture for pre-training models. We have Mastodon. Stop using the products and services of corporations, as much as you can, until we democratize and open-source them.