It’s the same ultra-authoritarian model they all use. Whether Mussolini’s Italy, Hitler’s Germany, the Soviet Union, Mao’s China, Trump’s America, Meloni’s Italy, Putin’s Russia, Winnie the Pooh’s China or Modi’s India.
They lie, distort and gaslight. The technology and therefore the methods are more complex and effective now, but otherwise this is the exact same thing they did a century ago.