It is a similar model excluding some variables. My dad lived during a dictatorship and he liked. It all depends on how, when and if you are born - And how you're raised. There's more to any political system than killing and persecuting people - What you complain about still happens in western super-liberal democracies, it is simply more discrete. Evaluating historical figures with western morality is naive. Genghis Khan is important to Mongolians because he didn't give a fuck and built an empire. Some wisdom is needed for that. Stalin may be hated for mass murders but some of my marxist friends are Stalinists - He's a good writer and has a more appealing doctrine in communism, despite what he did in practise. Some Spanish think Franco was an historical figure like any other - Did bad things, good things, he was a product of the time. This happens with just any historical figure.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you
