Word: totalitarian
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...Inside every Leftist lurks a totalitarian," he said...
...several colorful illustrations during the evening, Kiriyenko compared Russia's reform process to "a car with manual transmission [which] has five, six drives to go forward but only one to go back." Reverse, as he saw it, was reinstating a totalitarian regime to settle Russia's economic woes, while forward gears offered many avenues of reform...
...These are tactics of totalitarian societies,"she says. "It does create fear in people and itdoes create lack of trust...
...feel like a character in a novel," Bill Clinton told an aide on the day the Lewinsky scandal broke. With equal parts self-pity and deceit, the President cast himself as the protagonist in Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler's 1941 classic about the victim of a totalitarian witch-hunt. Eight months later, in the pages of Kenneth Starr's report to Congress, Clinton finds himself the villain in a much trashier tale, a fetid blend of libido and legalese that reads like Jackie Collins by way of the Congressional Quarterly...
...doubt Gorbachev made mistakes. No doubt his maneuvering between the Scylla of a totalitarian regime and the Charybdis of democratic ideas was far from irreproachable. No doubt he listened to and trusted the wrong people, no doubt his hearing and sight were dulled by the enormous pressure and he made many crude, irreversible mistakes. But maybe not. In a country accustomed to the ruler's answering for everything, even burned stew and spilled milk are held against the Czar and are never forgiven. Similarly, shamanism has always been a trait of the Russian national character: we cough and infect everyone...