Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stepping in. German and Austrian banks are expected to increase lending once East bloc economies are further along the path to free markets. But the amounts will be relatively small -- much smaller, ironically, than the billions in loans offered by the West when the East bloc was run by totalitarian regimes. Speaking in Zurich, A.W. Clausen, the former World Bank president and recently retired chairman of BankAmerica, warned against pouring money into the East: "Too much capital too fast can cause far more harm than good...
Both questions arise from the fact that virtually everyone in East Germany cooperated with, or was compromised by, the enforcing agencies of a totalitarian state. Some 2.3 million people -- effectively, the elite -- were members of the Socialist Unity Party, the communists. Then there were the 85,000 full-time employees of the Ministry for State Security (Stasi), as well as its 109,000 still mostly anonymous informers. Finally, thousands of journalists, judges, mayors and policemen gave at least lip service to what they knew to be a gigantic...
...roots of Saddam's totalitarian impulse can be traced to the northern Iraqi town of Tikrit, where he was born in 1937 to an impoverished peasant family. Fatherless, Saddam spent much of his youth with his maternal uncle, Khairallah Talfah, an army officer who in 1941 supported a failed attempt to topple Iraq's British-controlled monarchy. Talfah's five-year imprisonment instilled in the young Saddam a profound bitterness that would give rise to a nationalistic fervor and an acute desire to rid not only Iraq but also the entire Arab world of foreign influence...
...recorded on film had scared them. And that impressed me with the power of photography. As I said earlier, I don't hold out any great hopes that it can change the whole world, but I certainly think that it's a force...it's especially a pressure on totalitarian systems...
Before the opening of the Berlin Wall signalled an end to decades of oppression in Eastern Europe, the democracy movement in China once seemed the paradigm for effective peaceful protest against a totalitarian regime...