[Please note that this is provocative fiction. It is based on real events, history, and people.]
Imagine that its year 1991 and Soviet Union is collapsing. You are siting in a prison cell of state secret security service, for all that bad thing you had done, during the infamous dictatorships regime. You had been marked as too dangerous, for the newly restored republic and its upcoming established rule of rules and democracy. So an order to silently dispose you, was issued. Yet, as the organization is understaffed for a various reason, when the operative enter your cell, to carry out a justice; a fight occurred. In a really unfortunate situation, it happened that you come out victorious and survive.
Now is time to escape this place in disguise. But, during the chaos of witch follows the change of regime, of agents disposing sensitive documents and other evidences of they activities, there is no time of question like (Who are you?!), to someone who is passing around. Somehow it happens that you are rallied up to help whit the document shredding. So you play for a moment, pretending to be an agent. But you having a luck. Look!, there is Your file folder on near table, ready for finalization and archiving in archive. Ups... The entire thing (accidentally) slip into a document shredder.
Then the new president requested, presence of representative from state security agency on a meeting with a ministers behind a closed door. Everybody in room panicking, as if it seem to sound like an invitation for a boiling cauldron of criticize fest. Nobody wanted to go. Unfortunately for all, you got a nasty idea, step forward, decide to lie and declare that you can do it. At first they think you are crazy or too nationalistic, but soon they like you daring attitude, as you bluffing heavily by not saying anything that can make you expose. Then when they ask you (Who are you?), you just glanced at the document shredder machine. Nobody asking any more question, during that single moment of silence, as everybody though about thick line behind they past.
It working… Now you have a new identity, image and walking toward the president office. As a seasoned con artist, you've picked up on the subtle body language of state security agents and are good at imitating it. But you're deliberately putting in so much effort that, (That's a secret cop!), is the first thing people think of when they see you. And so... Silently passing checkpoints as nobody asking unnecessarily question that will draw attention to them. In the office there is a meeting ongoing about how to fix the very bad state the republic is. All this time you just stay there silently not to say anything that will expose you, watching them to struggle to found a suitable answers. You think that they are weak, afraid to propose an unpopular sure way solution, to push a radical reforms that can backlash on them.
Then there was this talk about: (What to do, with the still present deep corruption in the Republic?) That's where you got the really evil idea. You step forward in front of everybody and boldly declare that:(You can do it! You can free republic from corruption, if you get a free hand to do it.) It was a lie, a big one of a gambler game addict. But for the doom of all citizens in republic, and all those who worked so hard to put down the communism… you bluffing worked. President and his cabinet member foresight is too short to see, that this Unicorn bringing him a miracle is rotten to the core.
Yet, some old fairy tales, do tell a story about advisers who are evil to the root, who giving bad advice to the good benevolent leader, planing demise of entire country, glaring its eyes to become the one who will be atop of all. Surely nobody will try to pull this stupidly daring intrigue/scheme right when everybody in Republic seek and expect a promise of a better future without a shadow of oppression.
So then… Disguised as an Icon of a new start for a nation and its security, as image of a strong person, you are tasked to weed out the corruption you are given the appropriate powers to do so. Yet, in pursue of your revenge against society, you done something else. During a years, you methodically removed all competition in crime, absorbing all other faction. Forcing the baddies to swear loyalty to you, or they will be neutralized. Instead of removing a corruption, exorcised it, you double on you attempt to keep it alive, encouraging others to do it. You make a hidden rule, that you will get your; one tenth share from every crime or such that occurs under your protective wing, as a tribute to the big boss at top.
After ensuring your position, like your role model, the former great dictator and manipulator had done, through mass robbery, bribery, extortion, exploitation, and murders; then you turn your eyes to claim all the political power you can, just like he done. You claim the chair of president by trick and remove all who had different opinion that you. Establishing total control over media and politic.
Without a shame, you pillaged republic economy from top to bottom. Your established a new dictatorship while pretending to be the greatest democrat that ever lived. You spread propaganda and lies so shameless, that you though the previous long death dictator will praise you for upholding his true legacy. For be a strong man, who will make his twisted delusional dream true.
The moment you grasp a totalitarian power, you dint bother what kind of suffering you cause as long you will get what you want. You dint hesitate to order a terrorist attack on institutions and citizens of republic, where you acting as president, pretending to be a protector of people. Especially when you targeting the special someone of your political competition to harm them and possibly to remove they influence from game board. Plus, the propaganda machinery you build up, will work overtime to make you look like a hero, that this republic need.
Whats more, you intent to reclaim nations and republic that freed themselves from the oppression collective, back into subjugation, back into a shackles. So you send you minions to spread problems, dissent, crime, suffering and distrust; just like your ancestors do it. All that blood money you pillaged from people you shall protect, are used for bribery and illegal action. Especially funding corrupt politicians that shall be loyal to you, and when the time come, do you bidding. Yet you know that you cannot enslave free sheep if only you have a gun and sheepdogs are on guard. You need subordinates to do the enslavement for you. So you using Republic to prepare for a war of conquest, purposely creating a system that torture the minds of soldiers and security agents, so they will be more willing to do cruelty in your name.
As years passes, you getting older, more senile by year and year. Your lies are obvious as you don't bother to make effort to play role of benevolent leader. You making mistakes because in your advanced age, you become senile as you don't listening to what people says, and its not just because: (Lion don't surround itself with opinion of sheeps). You dint care that you broke any an all promises you made, any law national or international. The great dictator make a lot of effort avoiding, to be know as someone who lying. Yet everybody around you, who try to say something critic to you is quickly subdued or disposed and the propaganda machinery, keep citizen obedient.
Then this insane woman manage to find her way into your arms as a lover. She dint have a single good word for a citizen of neighboring republic and in any normal country or regime, she will be imprisoned in asylum for dangerous (mental ill) criminal. But she is your girlfriend, your ladylove, so she escaping treatment, imprisonment. As she is your girlfriend, so she can do anything to anybody, while whispering to your ear. She seduce you to commit an open act of war, to destroy what she hate, yet you dare to call the invasion differently that it is. You had no doubt it will be a great success. It was all according you plannings and a glorious grand step to your grand plan, and mark of accomplishing your dreams. From all sides you head that the army is a great one, your minions are loyal, your sheep are obedient. Spies you send into a world are successful. So governments of the free republics and nations are crumbling in pool of scandals, intrigues and infighting. Nobody shall stand a chance to resist your great plan.
But, a shits happened. You had been lied to.
People are people and no matter how much you try to spread your lies and false beliefs, using propaganda to make people obedient as sheeps, those who know the dark rotten truth about how it is in real, will inadvertently spread the root of evil further.
Decision to keep the corruption alive, because you allays had been a mafia thug, had come back to bite you. Decision of letting a relatively free hand to your minions to commit crimes, because you need a something on them that you can use if they stop obedient, make the republic to bleed. In comparison your ancestor the great dictator, he as a previous mafia boss, knew very well, that he must keep his subordinates in line, forcing them to act according the rule book. Yet you, let your crime syndicate to become fatty big like a tumor. Letting your minions to do what they want, unsupervised. If we look back into a history, certain well know artisan dictator, had zero tolerance to corruption. Yet the his empire fallen to insufficient knowledge of Methamphetamine know as Pervitin drug overdose. Yet a similar overdose spread through your mafia empire. Even the pirate Dictator from yellow river knew that its end if the entire crew is not on the same picture of pretense and deception. Yet you force the people around you to lie in everything, in order for them to live another day.
Your invasion is one colossal failure, because the root of corruption and mafia style solving of problems, soak through all layers of society, from top to bottom, from your inner circle to regular people. Army was never combat ready. Your spies betrayed you to fill they pockets. Republic economy is a joke. People are poor at best, except your minions, supporters and those who are corrupted. The war chest you prepare from all that looted out money from entire world is not that big as you though. And furthermore, free countries that are supposedly collapsing and should be prepared to accept enslavement stand together. Freshly awaken from dream that nobody in modern age who sits on the position of a president of one of the major countries is so dumb to think he can commit off this level of shit. But what happened, happened, and you realized, that you facing defeat.
And your bed girlfriend keep nagging you, that you don't doing enough, because she want that citizens of the other republic to suffer unspeakably. So you snap... Your hands end on her neck, and people whisper, that she was laughing to your face until the very end. Her cooling body was tossed on side of some road in mafia stile. Just like the rest of those who fall from your grace. It shall be a message to your minions, for them to know what will happen to them if they stop be obedient. But that another wrong decision, as in effect it to is angry grinning its teeth at you, ready to bite you badly. Too many of your minions and supporters see you as problem, that must be dealt eventually.
No matter how much you fortified your position, kill, cheat and lie, you cannot win this war, or election. Stopping the war or another big fraud, will means trumpeting the end of regime. Throwing the bodies of the citizens of the Republic to soak up bullets intended for your minions, so that the other side of the war will show mercy to the slaves sent to their deaths and ask for a truce, doesn't work because the other side is determined to win. The numbers who work for that side, who support them, extend your cause supporter by multiple times. Your only advantage is that ridiculous amount of bribery from all that stolen treasure your hoard. Plus the list of all evils deeds, your and yours minions done is like final backstabbing to every member of your mafia, supporters and everybody who get bribed or work with you. Because if you fall, everybody will fall with you. A final act of dropping the mask of pretense.
If the war end, those soldier and not just them who fight for you, will not simply return home. They will return to capital with they angry glares aim at the fort where you hiding. Plus your closest colleagues in crime who are siting on so much of loot, will not want to experience parting with the stolen wealth. So they too will try to make sure that the hatred toward you will end when someone reach your throat.
Now, the good guys are set to get you, and your entire mafia like organization. They are not afraid of the tag: (To big to fall.) They having a plan not just to deal with your supporters, liberate/de-criminalize all the victim your regime criminalized, back into a society. But also repair the republic, by accepting they laws and organization structures. Guiding the republic and its states, to joining the freedom policies and organizations. Moving, from Neo-feudalism to Free market, from dictatorship to democracy.
Your bluffing about weapons of mass destruction not working at all. They know its just a bully talk of someone who oppress and scary the weak. You dream about enslaving world into your rule will not come true, and you will face inevitable defeat. You know that you mafia empire, especially the facilities in a capital will burn in fire, long before the legions of liberators, the freedom fighters, will arrive to liberate the republic, from you and you minions.
Because it will be those minions of yours, who will not bother to defending you, and try to run. But first they will be true to they true nature of a criminals, bandits, scum. They will loot the capital, steal and kidnap what they can lay they hands on it. (Especially woman's.) Nothing is not to big for them to think how to steal it. Before justice arrive, they will set on fire what they can in mass arson. Heck, when they will be on it, they will reach for the nasty stuff, and released it on the civilian population, when they still had the chance to do it. They will not hesitate to murder and backstabs anybody, especially they crime group members, as backstabbing between themselves is what give them the most satisfaction. The reason is simple, they will not let the others, (especially the justice) to steal that pleasure (to trip up the one they hate the most) from them. All that suffering will be made, just to create a smoke screen to conceal they disappearance. They will try to escape into safety, like into a Siberia, or hide in shadows of old catacombs under the cities, to withstand the bad weather of democracy and justice. So when the time come, they can return back to surface and continue they bandit activities. You are for them just another Ass, who they blame for everything bad in they lives, letting you fully soak the wrath of the justice, while they will laugh in hideouts and watch TV. Or torture their prissiness.
Yet there is one last sparkle of hope for you, where you can swap the cards one last time, before historians will write they history books according what actuallyhappened. You can made you last lie, your last gamble of high staked, your last betrayal that will actually count as a good thing. It start with a public announcement, that you done so many times from the office you stole decades ago.
This statement will be marked by historians as a change of heart, or rather, an eye-opening moment. You can say that; you had make a mistake in judgment on the information you got on your desk. You can blame those minions of yours, for everything. That they lied to you, deceived you, and that caused every problem in republic. In the end calling them traitors. In part all of that can be seem as true. Of course, the most blood thirsty minions will not sits with hands in they pocket as they got pin a target on they back. They will rush to your place to end you. But, you already made a deal with certain special force to defend you with all power they have, for this one last day of announcement. The minions are decimated, but whats more the special forces have certain shopping list of names, of every minion that can seriously crack your last gamble. No matter if someone try to call you announcement as (Bandits and brutes like him, love most the back stabbing of they companions.), this move will make the lie about you weeding out the corruption a fact that become a true. Plus your call for functional, novel reforms will send a shock-waves like none others. Anybody can count they chances, but this will be like carpet of rats leaving the sinking ship, before wolf like hunters come sniffing they trail.
Whats more, you double down on the high play gamble, and in order to end the cold war finally, you submit an application to join the union of states on the other continent across the ocean, that embracing the principle of democracy to much. No string attached, full reforms to meet the criteria, rule of rules, freedoms and so on. Every state and republic inside this one will get representation. Heck, you even send an invitation to the union on west, expanding on the union of yellow river, and the entire world. Every single of them. A great victory of unity of nations, humanity and so on. Its all according an idea of united states of earth, before it was marked unrealistic at that time in history. (But now is the time, to make sure, that no one can use a military power to purse its political agenda and goals.)
This will probably make a senile industrial tycoon laugh until he is forced into retirement. While a senile pirate ruler will scream so loudly that he reaches his last breath. And an irresponsible fat adult child will probably happily cry into a puddle of fat. Yet the false sultan will not recover from the amount of plants that his white-blanketed warriors smoke into a tar mist. So much so that many of them will plunge irretrievably into nirvana. Moreover, negative dictators will try to oppose. However, many of their minions, answering the call of a higher purpose, will take up arms against the real evil.
Now you can play for the last time a position of strong man, who must have make a difficult decision in order to fulfill his promises to the previous president, playing a long game. A grand-theater for the last breath, but with wining applause as the curtain will fall down.