He's terrified of a world that differs from his own perspective and that he cannot control absolutely.
Having a democratic free enterprise system nation on on his border scared him to death.
His own people would start clamoring for the better life.
He also wiinessed what happened to all the other communist disctators in Eastern Europe after the fall of the iron curtain and in his heart he knows that this is his future.
Nobody wants to live under communist repression!
If we are patient his regime will crumble from within... juist like the old Soviet Union.
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