totalitarian government
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North Korea is an example of a totalitarian government.
From Textbooks • Jul. 28, 2021
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 a film that explores the potential dangers of how behavioral psychology could be used by a totalitarian government, Kubrick was uncharacteristically open in announcing the film’s themes he was exploring.
From Salon • Mar. 4, 2019
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