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
In 1948 George Orwell identified “Newspeak” as an essential component of the totalitarian toolkit: “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 15, 2025
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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