Yeah, it was very probably. But I think, Lebed wouldn't make such an awful symbiosis of authority and organized crime. I think he'd make not so cleptocracy dictatorship 🤷♂
I remembered if Lebed admires the Pinochet military from Chile that I saw on Swedish TV. Pinochet was a right-wing military dictatorship. Pinochet dictatorship in Chile 1974-91.