But what seems like weakness to the authoritarian is really honesty on our part. We don't seek to cheat, swindle, and deceive other people. That which fosters and encourages authoritarianism earns our eternal opposition. It is for this reason that we oppose capitalism and government. We see illegitimate authority as an evil because it is imposed on others without their consent, and is, thus, coercive.
Force negates reason through threat of violence.
Force remains the negation of reason, which is wrong. But there remains a path from empirical observation, to logically derived thought, to ethical judgment. Good and evil are human inventions. Good can never come from the absence of suppression of evidence. The Soviets never intent on that, and the genuine historical record shows that.