it's not hard to imagine that someone could believe there's a moral binary, that they and their favorite country are on the positive site of that binary and that due to various reasons the way to handle those on the negative site of the binary has to be strict or oppressive or repressive or violent, for example because something something material conditions mean capitalists will always work against you, or something something the contradiction between our people and an autonomous region cannot be solved with peaceful and harmonious measures

or if you seek revolution then obviously that is going to get violent, and because your revolution cannot be compromised you must use the strongest force and control to keep the revolution from being hijacked from the inside and turned against itself. your revolutionary purpose hasn't been achieved yet, obviously you can't loosen things just yet. in fact who knows who's going to turn against you any day now, maybe you should be even harsher.