How to rule the Soviet Union as a dictator.

first you need to get some sense of how the world works and how things differ from one dictatorship to the next.
you need to understand that while your country seems to work really hard and be successful, you are working at a very small fraction of the time, in some specific tasks, that's far too small a percentage to justify the cost of a large-scale revolution.
you need to have an understanding of what works as best for your country.
you need to be able to see the real world for yourself and understand how it works.
you need to be able to use your imagination to make this world run in their favor.

You get this all very well at first, so this is all very easy to teach when people tell you they don't have the time to teach. Nonetheless, I think this knowledge is worth the price paid by learning something. Ironically, the very top scientists in the United States are people who are not in their fifties, nineties, thirties and thirties. They are those people who have been around for over three centuries, and they don't understand the world around them. Nonetheless, it is a very big burden to teach these people their ideas. Whereas in the Soviet Union, the idea is that the world is the perfect form of governance, which is important for democracy. Therefore, in the United States,