1. Check out what happened in Russia for nearly 10 years after the fall of Communism.
2. Check out what happened in Iraq (and is still going on occasionally even now) after the fall of Saddam.
3. Check out what has happened in Egypt since Mubarak was removed.
4. Check out what will happen in Syria once Assad finally goes.
Answer - chaos and often violent dissent.
Of course there are exceptions that prove the rule - some Eastern European countries in the 1990s, Chile after Pinochet, Indonesia after Suharto (?), Libya now and others that you can name ....
And of course one can hardly describe the brutalities of the dictators and everything that was involved as desirable.
But the removal of an undesirable dictatorship does not necessarily lead to a better state, a thriving democracy usw. And there is the risk that in certain areas (z. B. women's rights in the "Muslim world") things will actually deteriorate!
Postscript (December 28th, 2021) - check out what has happened in Libya since I wrote this item. At one point ISIS was threatening to take over large chunks of it, and the civil war there is yet another example of the chaos which follows the fall of a dictator!
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