Look up the 2011-2013 Russia protests. He used the police, not the army, and used them to raid and arrest his opposition.

I think it’s okay for someone to wear this hat to poke fun at assholes and don’t really read it as ragebaiting as you seem to. What context to this hat am I missing that says otherwise?

The hotline is for service members if they are directly given an illegal order, not for civilians to report service members.

There does exist a hotline to call if you’re being given illegal orders, at least.