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nta, but even commie states didn't mow down protests en masse with machine guns (at least in the later stages), not out of a bleeding heart or anything similar but cynical pragmatism
If there's enough unrest to spark a protest despite your full control of the state and the media then indiscriminately mowing down protesters will only make the situation worse, it's always better to just disperse the riots, quietly disappear the leaders and imprison the more active participants instead of adding more fuel to the fire
Later you can claim they fled to Greenland, Liechtenstein or whatever country you want to frame them as an foreign agent from in an attempt to discredit the protest despite the only thing they were fleeing from being the helicopter 2km above the ground
There's a reason only people who have an iron grip on their country order them against their own citizens (or at least people who think they have an iron grip vide Ceaușescu) and Yanukovych's rule was nowhere near strong enough to get away with this, hell i think that when he was ousted even some deputies of his own party voted against him