totalitarian

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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

In 1948 George Orwell identified “Newspeak” as an essential component of the totalitarian toolkit: “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 15, 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

But what they didn’t say was that prison was also a microcosm of a totalitarian society, a nearly pure example of the police state.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover