Parent post is a pretty good example of propaganda that is being disseminated on full volume all over Russia for last 5 years. They got really good at shilling all over the internet with these kind of messages.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12050135 and marked it off-topic.
You can think of democracy as of a good thing or a bad thing, but either way it's not a thing that universally wins, once introduced.
We should notice that democracy had failed to preserve itself in the past in many European countries, notably Italy (1920s), Germany (1930s), Greece (1970s), to say nothing of Latin America. Most of the time it was later restored, one way or another.
Why on earth do you think that bringing unrelated things in the discussion is a workable discussion strategy? Downvote.