Word: totalitarianisms
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...Physically and psychologically, the town is stuck in a strange twilight between the Brezhnev-era Soviet Union and the modern European Union. In Minsk, the capital 250 miles away, the government retains the sheen of its totalitarian past. In 2006, Aleksandr Lukashenko, a Soviet-era official who claims to have been the only member of the Belarus legislature to vote against the dissolution of the USSR in 1991, was elected to his third term as president. With his command of 84% of the vote and a tight leash on opposition parties, he has good reason to expect that he will...
...also at work. It has been 20 minutes and Dudamel is still not happy with his violins. In more romantic Russian pieces, the strings can act as a swaying hammock between the spikes of the percussion and the brass. But in Shostakovich, they must be part of a shrill, totalitarian attack on the senses. The energy isn't there - after a delayed charter flight from Caracas, everyone is on three hours' sleep. Worse, these are teenagers on three hours' sleep. Dudamel is conducting the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra, the showcase of a 200,000-strong Venezuelan youth system from which...
...Christian right,” were endowed with the power to quash any form of religious expression? In conventional American wisdom, the road to theocracy is paved with good intentions, and the universalism that defines the French republican ethos seems more than a little totalitarian. In fact, it’s more or less just Gallic stubbornness; the French believe that the moment they stop maintaining laïcité, which translates very roughly as the secularism of the public sphere, the Republic will cease to exist. If that means insisting on a certain idea of how the citoyen looks...
...determined challenge, delivered Friday by Ronald Reagan with his back to the Berlin Wall, across from the Brandenburg Gate in Communist East Germany. But the necessity the President felt to remind West Berliners, of all people, that the Soviet leader still commands a totalitarian society underscored a melancholy aspect of Reagan's nine-day journey through Western Europe. For all his eloquence, the aging President was repeatedly upstaged by the youthful and suavely dynamic image of the man who was not there: Mikhail Gorbachev...
...airwaves with anti-government programming. RCTV, like the majority of the media, was certainly heavily biased against Chavez during his first years in power. And the continued anti-Chavez line of RCTV's execs is no secret. After telling TIME on Sunday that Chavez was headed "towards a totalitarian regime," RCTV chairman Marcel Granier scoffed at those who "still believe that there is democracy in Venezuela...