Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course the only way for the Soviets to maintain their military buildup at the expense of their own peoples standard of living was to erect a totalitarian system. This system ultimately wasted more precious Soviet resources for the upkeep of a massive and unproductive surveillance state which further debilitated Soviet capacities...
...Havel has been sentenced to jail, trials moved into a second month for other activists held on charges ranging from organizing peaceful antigovernment demonstrations to signing political petitions. And in Stalinist Rumania, party leader Nicolae Ceausescu remains the "Idi Amin of Communism," as his neighbors call him. The unregenerate totalitarian, obsessed with stamping his personal mark on the physiology and psychology of his country, brooks no opposition. When six retired high-ranking officials released a letter harshly condemning his brutally repressive regime, Ceausescu arrested the son of one of the signatories on spying charges and ordered a nationwide security alert...
...forefathers came from dictatorial, totalitarian rules. These people who fled Europe and came to the North American continent had a great suspicion of too much power," Evans says, adding that the founding fathers were aware of the corruptive nature of power. "The whole idea of the legislature was to slow down the political process...You just have to have a lot of persistence...
...holds numerous awards and honors for his plays, which include The Garden Party and Largo Desolato; essays The Power of the Powerless; and Letters to Olga, a collection of missives that he wrote to his wife while in prison. Havel's work reflects the struggle of citizens in a totalitarian state. Although he is both produced and published abroad, his work has been banned in Czechoslovakia since 1969 and must circulate underground...
...REVOIR LES ENFANTS Tragedy awaits, irony abounds in this memoir of friendship and betrayal in a boarding school during World War II. Without italicizing a single emotion, French director Louis Malle has created the year's strongest indictment of the totalitarian mind and the conformist soul...