Word: totalitarianism
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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...
Thus by one of those ironies in which totalitarian culture abounds, Socialist Realism was censored out of view just as its sponsor had once buried Modernism -- the art of the earlier Russian Constructivists. There must now be millions of Russians who have never seen one of these once mandatory icons of the dreaded father. The stuff was never popular in America either. Hence the interest of the current show at the Institute for Contemporary Art in the P.S. 1 Museum in New York City. Titled "Stalin's Choice: Soviet Socialist Realism, 1932-1956," it consists of around 100 paintings...
...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...