Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...constructive opposition, rejecting extremism and political violence, can also make its contribution to the search for the best solutions. Those whose thinking has been frozen in the dogmas of a totalitarian past, whether Soviet or imported from abroad, will have to bow to the will of the people...
...know Russians well and the Russian character. I am part of the people and speak to them in a language they understand. I love Russia and its people, and they feel it. I have been destined to carry out the difficult mission of leading Russia out of a totalitarian past and bringing it into the family of nations of the free world, where every person is the creator of his own happiness and can openly express his thoughts and opinions without fearing the secret police and its agents, recruited under pressure or of their own free will, and where...
...course, is China. While Russia -- struggling to reform the economy and the political system at the same time -- sinks ever deeper into poverty, China, which is trying capitalism without democracy, grows richer at an astonishing rate of 13% a year. China's leaders still aspire, at least, to a totalitarian regime. Dissidents are still arrested, and the government recently outlawed all satellite dishes. But it would be hard to argue honestly that China's approach has served the average citizen worse than Russia...
Perched in the carved wooden throne that serves as his office chair, he toyed with a flag bearing the Czars' double-headed imperial eagle and dismissed reports that he harbors totalitarian aspirations. Displayed on his office wall was a portrait of the French ultranationalist Jean-Marie Le Pen. By the window sat a teddy bear. "I am no fascist," he snarled, bounding from his chair to stand before a large map demarcating the portions of Finland, Poland and Afghanistan that he hopes to annex. "I have not allowed myself to make a single extremist escapade in my life...
Though the formerly totalitarian government is now simply authoritarian, the leaders make no pretense of easing the hard hand of the police state to permit any political diversity or plurality, let alone real democracy. Dissidents are still arrested and thrown into prison. Even so, the high-energy drive for economic diversity and the freedom that offers to talented people have helped open the society -- so long as individuals do not challenge the state. "There is more openness in China now," says a senior Western diplomat in Beijing, "than at any time in the past, and far more than under Gorbachev...