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
Because of Germany’s painful experience with totalitarian government, the threshold for legal surveillance is high, and the prosecutors’ statement said they had had no further justification to keep him under watch.
From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2016
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
