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

Nobody needs to tell a journalist in a totalitarian state what kinds of things can be published and what kinds of things can’t?

From Salon • Jan. 20, 2026

Breaking ranks in a constitutional democracy may not incur the same risks as in a totalitarian regime, but revising the dictionary of received ideas isn’t for cowards in any society.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 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

"I was living and working on the frontier between the totalitarian world and the West," he observed, "seeing both sides, and constantly angered by the contrast between the two."

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau