totalitarian government
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“My grandparents were murdered in concentration camps. And to see how the world, again, is swinging that direction, where there are too many people in favor of a totalitarian government, is crazy,” Eliot said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026
Justice Anthony Kennedy, who wrote the majority opinion in Alvarez, illustrated this danger by citing George Orwell's dystopian novel "1984," in which a totalitarian government relied on a Ministry of Truth to criminalize dissent.
From Salon ● Feb. 1, 2023
Total Recall is a movie about a totalitarian government that’s colonized another planet so it can charge ordinary people to breathe.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 1, 2020
No pope, however, has visited North Korea, whose totalitarian government has repressed religious activities and promotes a personality cult around Mr. Kim, his father and grandfather.
From New York Times ● Oct. 18, 2018
Zen came from the futuristic British TV science fiction series `Blake 7', in which a bunch of underfunded rebels attempted to overthrow an evil totalitarian government.
From Underground by Suelette Dreyfus
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