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View definitions for totalitarian government

totalitarian government

noun as in autocracy

noun as in police state

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But experts in the Central American nation saw it as a cynical move by a totalitarian government to bolster its profile and distract attention from its own worsening record of repression.

But experts in the Central American nation saw it as a cynical move by a totalitarian government to bolster its profile and distract attention from its own worsening record of repression.

“There are so many stories, especially in sci-fi, that are about struggles of the weaker and against the stronger, the struggle against unfairness, against cruelty and totalitarian government and drifting fascism,” Tudyk said.

From Salon

Ms. Grage took issue with the partnership because she felt that a “totalitarian government” should not be rewarded with a city partnership.

Justice Anthony Kennedy, who wrote the majority opinion in Alvarez, illustrated this danger by citing George Orwell's dystopian novel "1984," in which a totalitarian government relied on a Ministry of Truth to criminalize dissent.

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