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
Madeleine Gavin’s film has a gritty intimacy that utilizes footage shot by its subjects and the operatives who aid their flight from the totalitarian regime.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 7, 2024
Digging deep into the internet, “almost into the dark web,” Gavin discovered a secret world of hidden camera footage that made graphic the harsh realities of life under the totalitarian regime of Kim Jong Un.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 1, 2024
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
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
