totalitarian

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The constitutional court said back in 2001 that "as time passes, the relative importance of standpoints and positions of people in a totalitarian state certainly has not vanished, but it has definitely decreased".

From Barron's • Feb. 20, 2026

It would also relieve the immigration system so it can focus on applicants from other countries who weren’t living under totalitarian rule.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 19, 2026

“We effectively and legally abolished the Soviet totalitarian empire,” said Gennady Burbulis, Yeltsin’s top aide.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 16, 2025

This exploitation was of course opportunistic in the extreme, but it also revealed something fundamental about totalitarian psychology.

From Salon • Sep. 28, 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