Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most part, the folks were just normal. Given a choice between poverty, loneliness and fear in a democracy, and relative prosperity, family and safety in a totalitarian regime, the returning Soviets chose the latter. Like most human beings, they eschewed ideology and high ideals for a chance to enjoy life just a bit more than before...
...country's English-language newspapers were stunned by the severity of the new regulations. Declared the financial newspaper Business Day: "Government today unceremoniously dumps this country into the totalitarian camp." An editorial in the Pretoria News began with the comment, "Well, that's it," and concluded, "This is a desperate action by desperate people who demonstrate that they are unfit to govern." Said Cape Times Editor Tony Heard bluntly: "We are clearly on the road toward being a police state." Overseas, the reaction was almost uniformly critical. The U.S. denounced the South African action, as did most of its allies...
...Iran's internal-external politics into the proper perspective. The Islamic Republic, now approaching its seventh year of volatile tenure, has taken every possible measure to entrench itself as a theocratic despotism. Its leaders, armed with the radical Iranian brand of Shia ideology, which utilizes the modern totalitarian techniques of mass mobilization and suppression of all opposition, believe they are in firm conrtol of the country...
...best of totalitarian traditions, the officers of the club recently decided to change some rules. The officers decided to eliminate the lottery and to change the selection process. Now, complain current members, the four officers alone choose all the new members...
Totality and irreversibility are related. It used to be thought that totalitarianism had repealed the law of history by which power sows the seeds of its own destruction. If sheer ruthless vigilance could destroy any center of opposition, even any island of independent thought, then -- aside from external conquest, which alone destroyed Nazism -- totalitarian rule could never be reversed...