totalitarian

Example Sentences

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In the wake of World War II, Prague went from one totalitarian extreme to another.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

It was adopted two years after former Czechoslovakia had shed the totalitarian communist rule of four decades, and two years before it split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

From Barron's • Feb. 20, 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

This exploitation was of course opportunistic in the extreme, but it also revealed something fundamental about totalitarian psychology.

From Salon • Sep. 28, 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