rule of terror

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She considers 1974 the year she “became a serious journalist,” she said, bringing opposition details out of a Chile traumatized by the death of Salvador Allende and the rule of terror under Augusto Pinochet.

From New York Times • Jun. 12, 2023

Stalin's rule of terror was later denounced by his successor, Nikita Khrushchev, and his body was removed from the mausoleum in 1961 and buried near the Kremlin wall.

From Reuters • Sep. 2, 2022

While the much-anticipated report is drawn mainly from open sources, this is the first time such a well-compiled and thorough examination of Kadyrov’s alleged rule of terror has been made public.

From The Guardian • Feb. 23, 2016

Thus within the respondent's vast River Rouge plant at Dearborn the freedom of self organization guaranteed by the Act has been replaced by a rule of terror and repression.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the Jacobin rule of terror in Paris, and the dread of seeing the revolutionary scenes repeated in his own realm, wrought a complete change in his character and policy.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 14 by Various