dictatorship
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In almost every movie about life under a dictatorship, there is a scene where the security services order someone to “show me your papers.”
From Salon • Mar. 26, 2026
Merz replied that Germans owed a debt to Americans as in the long run "this was the liberation of my country from Nazi dictatorship."
From Barron's • Mar. 19, 2026
People who have lived under a dictatorship for almost half a century are forced to survive and rise within a sick system.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026
Reid added that she was a social democrat who believed in "freedom of expression, free trade unions and free elections" and was not any sort of "admirer or apologist for the Chinese Communist party's dictatorship".
From BBC • Mar. 5, 2026
He read about the history of the Korean Peninsula, the reputation of the Kim family dictatorship, and his country’s status as an international pariah.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
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