totalitarian
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“My grandparents were murdered in concentration camps. And to see how the world, again, is swinging that direction, where there are too many people in favor of a totalitarian government, is crazy,” Eliot said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026
Extremely isolated, totalitarian North Korea is a militarised and heavily indoctrinated state.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
His real offense, he came to believe, was the one thing a totalitarian party can’t allow: organized reading and exchanging ideas outside it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
We learn that in Romania, for example, the leper colony of Tichilești was one of the only places in the country to lack state informants under the totalitarian Ceaușescu dictatorship.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
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
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