Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the last bitter defeat by Paraguay in the Chaco war (1932-35), Bolivians took up ideas of social revolution from both right & left. Marxist socialism penetrated the universities. Officers of the defeated army organized totalitarian dictatorships. One dictator, pro-Nazi President Gualberto Villaroel, was overthrown after World War II in a fashion so violent that all the world remembers him-hanged from a lamp post before his palace. The downtrodden tin miners, finding a leader of their own in a magnetic, Marxist-minded ex-soccer star named Juan Lechin, rallied to his union and fought bloody battles with company...
...Germany, and let us remember that the return of nationalist elements onto the public scene is a consequence of American pressure for German rearmament. Perhaps there is a better way of combating the "Nazi Rebirth" than the one of ignorance and misrepresentation. Why not use a weapon that no totalitarian system can afford to use the truth? F. W. Sehulenburg...
...Totalitarian Education...
...Bishops' statement, they maintained that "an all-embracing state controlled school system completely devoid of religion" was "totalitarian...
...That night bonfires burned all over the Bolivian Andes, and the cobbled streets of La Paz echoed with the din of jubilant partisans firing off the rifles and pistols they had seized from government arsenals and routed army units last April during the uprising of Paz Estenssoro's totalitarian Movement of National Revolution...