not neccessarily 'persecuted' - how would I know that without commiting to research I simply have no time for...

But a lifetime's experience informs my reasonable judgement that at least more than a few may be 'persevering' and 'enduring'...

I personally know that much just from entering culturally active adulthood under thatcher's regime in the 1980s...

Obviously, I or close friends, and contemporaries weren't made to 'disappear'..
But that was happening in other right wing nation's that thatcher's govt were very good friends with...