Word: dictatorship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...amusement, he watched the clanking military parades on Red Square or booted a soccer ball through the courtyards. Whenever he left the palace, he saw evidences of the imposed tributes of dictatorship: the three-story murals of his father throughout Moscow, the monuments, parks and buildings erected to Stalin. He saw how ordinary mortals fawned whenever his father spoke. Before long, young Vasily Stalin learned that the boss's son could also dictate and be obeyed...
With each passing week, as the screws are slowly turned down, Juan Perón's Argentina looks more like a fascist-type dictatorship. Last week Perón & Co. twisted the screws tighter in three fields...
...mood. He sat for a press conference, and Venezuela's usually censored press printed his remarks: "Democracy without liberty of the press is impossible. It's no help to the government to have a press which only praises it." Then, though Venezuela now lives under a military dictatorship, he said forthrightly that armies should not mix in government: "Anyone who uses the army as an instrument for political aspirations is defeated beforehand." After this ringing statement, Plaza tactfully decorated the three members of Venezuela's ruling junta...
After a swim in the pool, we sat on the edge while the businessman stressed that MacArthur was one of the best products of America, and would give the country the sort of dictatorship it needed. Finally our host invited us to have a drink, and on parting he gave both of us a pamphlet which advocates that Marshall aid be stopped and the British immigrate in large numbers to others parts of the world...
...difficult to learn what is going on in Pusan, the South Korean capital. Censorship imposed by Rhee since his election in August, 1948, has been thorough. Few Koreans want to suffer from the reign of terror which may strike anyone who proclaims anti-Rhee views. Charges of corruption and "dictatorship" are not the only ones which opposition parties are continually throwing at the Rhee faction. The major complaint is that the government is ineffective and its leaders incompetent in solving Korean social and economic problems...