totalitarian

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In a totalitarian sci-fi world, a hammer thrown by a young athlete smashes a "Big Brother" figure declaiming to brainwashed citizens from a vast screen.

From Barron's • Mar. 29, 2026

“We effectively and legally abolished the Soviet totalitarian empire,” said Gennady Burbulis, Yeltsin’s top aide.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 16, 2025

“The Handmaid’s Tale,” her prescient novel of totalitarian dictatorship, began with the group hanging scene, which was shifted to the back of the book.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 3, 2025

“A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy,” Orwell wrote in his diary while he was working on the book.

From Salon • Oct. 10, 2025

He resettled in the United States in 1940, thereby avoiding any more serious consequences of challenging the totalitarian line.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall