totalitarian regime
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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
What’s amazing about “Brazil,” even after 40 years, is how prophetic it was about the manipulation of public mores and knowledge by a totalitarian regime.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2025
Since North Korea's famine in the 1990s, hundreds of thousands of locals have tried to flee the totalitarian regime.
From BBC • Dec. 7, 2023
“Even if people live under a totalitarian regime, they must retain feelings, dignity, but they do not.”
From Seattle Times • Apr. 5, 2022
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
