totalitarian government
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Yoko Ogawa's brilliantly chilling "Memory Police" imagines a dystopia in which a totalitarian government censors people's memories as things themselves mysteriously disappear: birdsong, perfume, books, people.
From Salon • Sep. 29, 2020
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
When the views of thinking people, whether lawyers, teachers, editors, or writers, are determined by our self-assessed risk of losing jobs or social standing, it doesn’t take a totalitarian government to repress our thoughts.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 14, 2019
In the year 1984, the actor John Hurt starred in the film “1984,” winning praise and awards for his portrayal of a citizen caught in the grip of a totalitarian government.
From New York Times • Jan. 29, 2017
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 Dreyfus, Suelette
