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David Shambaugh paints a rosy picture as the People's Republic of China turns 60 [Sept. 28]. Let's not forget that China is a communist dictatorship with a one-party system, a rubber-stamp congress and a judiciary under the control of the Party. Human rights are routinely trampled, even though they are written into the constitution; dissidents are jailed for long periods of time. The Chinese government did not hesitate to send tanks against its own people in 1989, and we have seen what the government can do against the Tibetans and the Uighurs when they dare rise...
...elections, there has been an unfortunate discussion about justice in the former G.D.R. The hard-left party Die Linke is driving a campaign to reject the term state of injustice when talking about the regime in East Germany. This is another attempt to play down a dictatorship that destroyed families and careers, killed people in jail and at the Wall, and built a monstrous system of control and terror with access to all sectors of daily life. Young Germans learn a lot about the crime and terror in Nazi Germany. Unfortunately, their knowledge of the inhumanity of the former G.D.R...
Recently in Germany there has been a discussion about justice in the former G.D.R., espoused by the hard-left party Die Linke who are seeking to reject the term state of injustice when talking about the regime. This is another attempt to play down a dictatorship that destroyed families and careers, killed people and built a monstrous system of control and terror across all sectors of daily life. Young Germans learn a lot about the crime and terror in Nazi Germany. Unfortunately, their knowledge of the inhumanity of the former G.D.R. regime is often close to zero. Maik G. Seewald...
...school or anyplace someone happened to be near a cane. I've fought the left's paternalism of the body and the right's paternalism of the soul. But recently I've been wondering if my political assumptions are wrong, if America might not be better off under a dictatorship. I've also been wondering if somewhere deep inside, I secretly want to be caned...
...university Müller agitated for freedom of speech, a right increasingly difficult to come by under Nicolae Ceauşescu's dictatorship, especially for German-speaking Romanians. After graduation she became a translator at a factory, but she ran afoul of the secret police when she refused to serve as an informant and lost her job. She began writing fiction, and in 1982 she published a collection of stories called Niederungen, rendered in English as Nadirs. In spare, poetic, forceful language the stories describe cruelty and repression in a German-speaking village much like the one Müller...