it's almost natural that after the fact of any regime - when it is gone, has been defeated, whatever - that people will claim to have hated it, loathed it, despised the great leader...mostly, that's bullshit...especially when they tell it to foreigners who want, sometimes desperately, to hear just that, as in: we did the right thing in killing all those people in order to destroy that awful person...
same is true for the saddamites, who would have us believe that the entire nation was beaten, jailed,or murdered...what's amazing is that these foreign monster-demon-satanic, really almost comic book figures , leave behind any living people at all...
fs