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Word: totalitarian (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sickening to watch these totalitarian papists pretending, for the time being, to be democratic Americans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 28, 1957 | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

Before and during World War II these countries were victims of Hitler's fascism. Following his defeat, their suffering peoples happily expected to forget totalitarian terrors and achieve democratic governments, and they welcomed as liberators the soldiers of the Russian army. But the liberators overstayed their welcome, undermining and finally destroying their prestige by acts of plundering and barbarism. And, still worse in the long run, they became the intimidating force that set up puppet governments and forced non-communist parties and politicians into eclipse. In the complete nationalization that followed the schools were, of course, included, and a systematic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Marxist Schools Analyzed | 10/26/1957 | See Source »

Brzezinski felt that "Poland can no longer be called a totalitarian state." It no longer has the single, monolithic Communist party, he stated, for at the top it is split into factions, and the lower echelons are in dedacy. Since October the power of the police has been neutralized, he noted, and there is now much greater freedom of speech...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brzezinski Finds Fear of U.S.S.R. Supports Polish Communist Regime | 10/22/1957 | See Source »

...long, shameful list of "crimes" against the state invented by totalitarian rulers to repress their subjects, Red China has added another: spirit-crime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Ghostly Counter-Revolution | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

...three-year sentence imposed last year after he was convicted of "conspiring against the government." In the courtroom Djilas looked thin, but seemed in good spirits and health despite almost a year in jail. The government prosecutor began his case by reading excerpts from Djilas' book. Sample: "the totalitarian tyranny and control of the new class [i.e., the ruling Communist oligarchy] which came into being during the revolution has become the yoke from under which the blood and sweat of all members of society flow." Snapped Djilas: "I wrote the truth, from the first word to the last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: I Wrote the Truth | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

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