but even THAT ASPECT, that he COOPERATED isn't front and center on every newspaper in the world, instead just constant parroting 'dictator, dictator, dictator'

The fact that he cooperated openly and without protest was used as further evidence of his guilt. It's so fucking backwards.

Parenti's quote is over 40 years old and was about the ussr. The more things change, the more they stay the same.