- They seek to destory through force or pressure, which rarely ever works.
Drew you are looking at this through the eyes of a free American. Your average Russian knows what its like to live under an oppressive regime, they know the penalties involved if you go against the establishment. In the free world the reaction to something like this might be rebellion, you might get people interested in joining up just to piss the establishment off. In Russia the people know you don't piss off the establishment, not unless you want a very long holiday in Siberia.
This kind of police pressure will kill off interest from "interested ones" and people will be scared to accept literature from them or have anything to do with them. And if that saves the life of one "Bleeder" or saves just one family from being split up then that's a good thing.
However it will re-enforce the idea that Jehovah is with the witnesses and feed the paranoia of those dubs in the free world.