My wife and her family fled Königsberg during the War to settle across East and West Germany after the war. This has Stasi written all over... Back then it was a man in uniform and it was obvious as people would "go missing" now it is Silicon Valley, I am terrified as to what comes next.

I don't know if it is on Netflix but you could try "Mr. Jones". It is about a British Reporter who investigates Stalin's Famines and abuse of Ukraine.

If I recall correctly, there are some scenes where western Journalists had been "bribed" and "chauffeured" around Moscow into private parties and the like.