The frontier guard kept us away from the border so that we could not go abroad, instead of keeping away the enemies of our country. They inverted all the scales of values. Maybe Lenin really wanted to build a socialist system. We saw the results. Aristotle was right.
Democracy degenerates in dictatorship.
Firstly, democracy causes corruption and hypocrisy. Then the leaders learn how to use democratic rules in order to handle people. From the corruption to the terror mentioned with the political policy, all the means are used. Dictatorship is the last stage. After that only the fall follows, due to economic decline.