rule of terror

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.

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.

“The reality of the mass atrocities and the prolonged rule of terror blurred the boundary between victim and perpetrator,” Brot told Haaretz in 2019, “and thereby created a distinctive type of victim. These were ‘complex victims,’ which means individuals who were victims of a system of oppression and violence but at the same time harmed other victims.”

In March last year, government forces had captured the town ending a 10-month rule of terror by the extremists.

“Translating Nero’s rule of terror, I / Could see before me the equivalent,” he writes, and continues: