Dear Abdul Razzak,
Your article is timely and pertinent.
The real irony is that POWER CORRUPTS AND ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPTS ABSOLUTELY and to this there is no exception.
Human history (rather the history of Homo sapiens) is replete with incidents when the stronger one (in present context powerful ones) plundered the weak. My country India and its Vedic culture had been a typical suffer and all barbarians be they from any part of the globe.
Therefore, not only the two powerful communist countries, even the democratic with power behave almost in an identical manner.
Perhaps this is the basic human nature.