''A skilled dictator is much more benefficial to it's country than a democracy of idiots'' works very well for Russia by my opinion.
I'll agree with that.
Compare China with India. In 1950, India was far ahead of China in almost every single aspect. The literacy was higher, income was higher, the health care was better, and even the Indian life expectancy was much higher than that of the Chinese. Now, after 65 years of pure democracy, India is lagging behind China (which is a dictatorship) in every single aspect.