Word: totalitarian
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...specifically made out to condemn Franco and the principles he stood for, and this policy was reasserted by a vote of the General Assembly on December 12, 1946 and again in the April-May session in 1949. Franco's dictatorial record is unique in the history of existing totalitarian regimes. In many respects not even Russia can compare with it, for Russia's was instituted by force from within, not by the decisive force of outside powers...
...effects of psychological torture on men of intelligence and faith have been recurrently evident in mock trials, both in Poland and Nuremberg, which first suggested the idea to her. The Prisoner, however, identifies no nation nor name. It is essentially a film which reaffirms a Christian ethic in any totalitarian state in any time...
...purge is necessary, he says, since a totalitarian regime lacks the standards and methods to encourage change and mobility, and the close contact between leaders and people fostered by a constitutional form of government...
...Totalitarian leadership tends to over-estimate the basis of its strength and to be misled by the appearances of universal support which it requires from all the citizens...
...isolation of the totalitarian leadership also results in "constant suspicion; hence, constant endeavors to eliminate causes of suspicion," he believes...