You are so correct, sad to say.
If you've looked at the history of the Soviet Union and Communist China there are too many instances of political leaders being killed because they constituted a threat to the top leadership of the country. The most notorious example was during the time of Josef Stalin and the infamous Yezhovchina Great Purge of the 1930's that many have killed over 10,000,000 people because of Stalin's paranoia about threats to himself.
SOOOOOOOOO HIDEOUSLY TRUE.