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So far so good. Lots of historical examples to understand the rationality of dictators. Follows the lines of Machiavelli.

"And so during the Hour of the Cashbox a multitude of people showed up, and the purse dwindled away because every day His
Benevolent Majesty had to pay more for loyalty.
Since the cost of loyalty was going up, there was an urgent need to increase income, and that's why the Finance Ministry ordered the peasants to pay higher taxes. "

The Emperor supervised even the lowliest assignment, because the source of power was not the state or any institution, but most personally His Benevolent Highness. How important a rule that was! A special human bond, constrained by the rules of hierarchy, but a bond nevertheless, was born from this moment spent with the Emperor, when he announced the assignment and gave his blessing,

"in most authoritarian regimes informal guidelines drive everyday operating procedures. This means that an examination of the written rules of the political game often reveals little about actual political practices, which are further obscured by the preference for secrecy over transparency. "

"De muy diversas maneras explican los historiadores el genocidio cometido en Ucrania. Los rusos ven en él un instrumento con el que se pretendía destruir la sociedad rusa tradicional para construir en su lugar una masa informe, sumisa y cuasiesclava del homo sovieticus. Los historiadores ucranianos opinan que el objetivo de Stalin no era otro que salvar el Imperio. El Imperio no podía existir sin Ucrania."