Genuine philosophers have made such sacrifices. Russell gave away his inheritance after completing Principia because he objected to the idea of inherited wealth.
And spent his life arguing for a social system which executes those who do not work all their lives for the State or attempt to escape it.
Russell was a very eloquent opponent of the death penalty and in any case it was never in particularly widespread use in the UK during his lifetime. It is somewhat pointless to argue that his later opposition to nuclear weapons was motivated by affinity for the Soviet Union Russell was a convinced Pacifist before the Soviet Union came into existence, going to jail because of his beliefs. I don't know quite why you seem to have picked up the idea that he was some kind of Stalin appologist, he wasn't even a Marxist. Russell was far too intelligent to be taken in by the communists, he didn't waste many words on them but those he did were generally uncomplimentary. He was very contemptuous of Wittgenstein's brief attempt to become a Soviet pessant. Its an odd kind of world view you have in which anyone who does not agree with your views must be a communist sympathiser. Its not even the case that the left were uniformly sympathetic to communism as the example of George Orwell makes very clear. The vocabulary of the cold war was established by a socialist propagandist on the basis of a speech by a socialist Prime Minister. Churchill made the original "iron curtain" remark, but it was after Atlee's speech to the UN which left the USSR unable to reply and thus established the basis of engagement. If you are going to make ad-hominem attacks you should at least try to get them on target. Phill