I’m not excusing big government, nor actions by a dictatorship. So it’s your reading comprehension we need to call in to question.
You are by calling any action by them you perceive to be of some benefit as “good”, and by saying so implying that the “good” thereof referred to could not have come by any other means. Since those actions were means by which they attained more power for themselves, then the actions and their results are themselves evil. One has to be of greater intestinal fortitude than to accept anything that causes ease (note the difference from “good”) from any source.