Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn quotes in The Gulag Archipelago, Volume 1, a man by the name of Nikolai Vasilyevich Krylenko, the organizer of the Department of Exceptional Courts of the People’s Commissariat of Justice and therefore the “accuser” in several cases against internal enemies of the Soviet Union:
“And even if the defendants here in Moscow did not lift a finger [and it looks very much as though that’s the way it was] at such a moment, nevertheless . . . even a conversation over a teacup as to the kind of system that should replace the Soviet system, which is allegedly about to fall, is a counterrevolutionary act. . . . During the Civil War not only is any kind of action [against Soviet power] a crime . . . but the fact of inaction is also criminal.”
The Gulag Archipelago, Volume 1, p 332
Did you catch that?
Communists in the early days of the Soviet Union could see both action and inaction as criminal, just as Communists today can see both speech and silence as violence.