dictatorship
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His case is one of the most striking examples of how the Pinochet dictatorship dealt with its enemies.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
It represented the “dangerousness” of nonconformists that the dictatorship fears.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
Balliu told AFP his father kept all the property titles for the land confiscated by the communist regime, despite the risks posed by the former dictatorship for keeping such documents.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
The contemporary Falangist movement in Spain explicitly borrows its name and iconography from Francisco Franco’s dictatorship.
From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2026
The Soviet Union controlled East Germany, where it installed a Communist government under a dictatorship.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
But at the same time, even under the cruelest dictatorships, it has still managed to produce fine literature.
From Barron's ● May 21, 2026
The Eritrean leader has ruled his country since it first gained independence from Ethiopia in 1993, and has since consolidated power to create one of the world’s most repressive dictatorships.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026
He pointed to Brazil and South Korea, which have histories of dictatorships and which in recent years have rejected anti-democratic threats.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2025
Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky said RFE/RL, based in Prague, "is one of the few credible sources in dictatorships like Iran, Belarus, and Afghanistan".
From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2025
And thanks at least in part to those technologies, we’re seeing the tentative spread of democratic institutions in areas that have lived for years under dictatorships or near-dictatorships.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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