"Elections only matter if OUR party wins"

Explanation: Kicking off the Russian Civil War, after couping the provisional government of Russia which had organized free and fair democratic elections, the Bolsheviks under Lenin decided to dissolve the newly elected legislature the very first day it met. You see, this legislature, with a socialist supermajority, had committed a very terrible crime - being full of socialists who didn’t swear allegiance to Lenin’s party!

This would plunge Russia into ~4 years of civil war and ~60 years of totalitarian dictatorship.