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brutal suppression

NOUN
reign of terror
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“This is yet another wave of brutal suppression of dissent and crude harassment of those who left the country and particularly those who have remained in Belarus,” Latushka said.

From Washington Times Nov. 28, 2023

History shows that the brutal suppression of dissent leads to a build-up of popular discontent to a boiling point, with disastrous consequences.

From The Guardian Oct. 18, 2018

After brutal suppression under the Nazis, political satire returned in the 1960s and 1970s. 

From Washington Post Aug. 28, 2017

The move made his father, an imam who remembered the brutal suppression of an armed Islamist uprising in 1982, uneasy.

From New York Times Aug. 24, 2013

Those who would remove crimes by removing the causes thereof, cannot, as a matter of course, sympathize with a plan of brutal suppression.

From Woman under socialism by De Leon, Daniel




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