Word: totalitarian
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After all the horrors of the Soviet Union--the gulag, the secret police, the famines, the totalitarian control over every aspect of life--is it possible that the citizens of Russia would voluntarily return power to the Communists? In the coming weeks they may very well do just that, by electing a Communist as their President. What would induce a people to take such a step? The Russians have enjoyed unprecedented tastes of freedom over the past few years, and the process began so hopefully, even heroically. Now the descendants of Stalin's victims are poised to welcome as their...
...would a people so recently freed from totalitarian rule choose a course that could quickly lead to their renewed oppression? Part of the answer can be found in the abuse Yeltsin received in Yaroslavl. "A lot of Russians have come to identify various aspects of what we call reform not with a better future but with hardship," explains U.S. Deputy Secretary of State (and former TIME editor at large) Strobe Talbott, who oversees the Clinton Administration's Russia policy. "Crime and corruption are both broad based and deeply rooted," Talbott says. "They pose huge obstacles to Russia staying...
...side, you have a rigid socialist regime with a failing centrally-planned economy and a totalitarian iron hand manipulating the whole nation at will; on the other side, you have an open capitalist regime, a successful free market economy and a democratic system guaranteeing people's rights and involvement in politics. Above all, shall we remember, this gap has been created in a mere span of 40 years, even less than one generation's lifetime! And yet, the dark shadow of a second Korean War, a disaster which could possibly wipe out the gap by just destroying everything, is always...
...research center--it is a totalitarian center, a chamber of horror," he said. "They're a bunch of criminals...
...been on a tour of African and Middle Eastern dictatorships, providing aid and comfort to despots whose human-rights abuses and support for terrorism have earned opprobrium around the world. The purpose of his junket, Farrakhan explains, is to discover for himself whether reports in the Western press about totalitarian conditions in these benighted countries are true. His conclusion: oppressing Third World people is O.K. with me unless the oppressors happen to be white, like South Africa's former rulers...