Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...progress has been made only at staggering cost-including some 15 million lives. The Kremlin, having an absolute monopoly on all business, fixes absurdly low prices on the goods it buys, absurdly high ones on the goods it sells. Thus Russia employs a sort of perverted capitalism-"capitalism gone totalitarian . . . more ruthless than that of any American robber baron...
Those of you who read Correspondent Robert Benjamin's account of the treatment of political prisoners and the low state of democracy in totalitarian Paraguay in TIME'S Aug. 30 issue may have wondered how he happened to get the story. Here is his version...
...radio speech preceding the 1945 general elections, Churchill predicted that a Labor victory would result in a Socialist totalitarian state employing "some form of Gestapo...
...according to eternal and abiding principles but by the authority of the Word of God, which may change according to times and conditions. The situation in 1948, he contends, is not the same as it was in 1933. Hitler's and Stalin's regimes may both be totalitarian. But what is important is the special temptation Hitlerism was to the church in prewar days, when many prominent people were extremely friendly to the Nazis. Thus, says Earth, it was necessary for the church to take an uncompromising stand against Hitler from the very beginning...
...friends were invited by the Soviet government to Russia. While thousands looked on, Gide stood in Moscow's Red Square with Stalin and Molotov (see cut), and delivered a funeral oration for Maxim Gorki. Almost overnight, Gide, the longtime champion of individualism, became the literary hero of a totalitarian state...