rule of terror
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She considers 1974 the year she “became a serious journalist,” she said, bringing opposition details out of a Chile traumatized by the death of Salvador Allende and the rule of terror under Augusto Pinochet.
From New York Times • Jun. 12, 2023
Stalin's rule of terror was later denounced by his successor, Nikita Khrushchev, and his body was removed from the mausoleum in 1961 and buried near the Kremlin wall.
From Reuters • Sep. 2, 2022
While the much-anticipated report is drawn mainly from open sources, this is the first time such a well-compiled and thorough examination of Kadyrov’s alleged rule of terror has been made public.
From The Guardian • Feb. 23, 2016
Since Nikita Khrushchev substituted peaceful coercion for Stalin's rule of terror, he has stripped the police of many of their former powers.
From Time Magazine Archive
The government of the new deputy indeed was a rule of terror.
From History of the English People, Volume V Puritan England, 1603-1660 by Green, John Richard
