totalitarian regime
Example Sentences
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Breaking ranks in a constitutional democracy may not incur the same risks as in a totalitarian regime, but revising the dictionary of received ideas isn’t for cowards in any society.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025
Mohammad Rasoulof: It’s very difficult because all of my films, all of my stories relate to living in a totalitarian regime.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2024
Prokofiev’s Fifth represented a time when the composer was writing under Stalin’s totalitarian regime; the Mahler, the work of a turn-of-the-century composer whose legacy the Nazis tried to tarnish.
From New York Times • Jan. 22, 2024
The story: Prophet Song depicts an Ireland in the grip of a totalitarian regime some time perhaps in the near future.
From BBC • Nov. 25, 2023
No less persecutory than any totalitarian regime, these mass media are ominous symptoms of the social malaise of disillusionment with the realities of life and with more institutionalized modes of expression.
From After the Rain : how the West lost the East by Vaknin, Samuel
