totalitarian
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Forty years later, Pope Pius XI, in “Quadragesimo Anno,” criticized concentrations of capital amid the widespread destitution during the Great Depression, but he also criticized the totalitarian responses sweeping Europe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Freidenberg’s diaries reveal aspects of Soviet life that no one else dared to record, and shed light on the political system that, after Hannah Arendt, we have come to call totalitarian.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
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 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
He resettled in the United States in 1940, thereby avoiding any more serious consequences of challenging the totalitarian line.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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