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...grasp the simple truth that people work badly if they are terrorized and half starved. Toward the end of the Gulag, Applebaum writes, "It was becoming clear to the Soviet authorities that the camps were wasteful, corrupt, and above all, unprofitable." Unlike Germany, Russia has not confronted its totalitarian past. It tries to forget it - or, in the case of the present political leadership, selectively justify it, as if 10 million deaths can be balanced out by achievements in other fields. It may be for this reason that the legal and prison systems here are still a nightmare, and that...
...occupation authority, headed by retired Lieut. General Jay Garner, is asking all Iraqi civil servants, whoever they are, to return to their desks. Said Garner in a press conference last week: "As in any totalitarian regime, there were many people who needed to join the Baath Party in order to get ahead in their careers. We don't have a problem with most of them. But we do have a problem with those who were part of the thug mechanism under Saddam." Once the U.S. identifies those in the second group, it will "get rid of them," Garner promised. Within...
There's another model China's leaders would do well to study. In 1985 a massive earthquake shook Mexico City. At the time, Mexico was, in effect, a one-party state, governed by a deeply corrupt and softly totalitarian regime whose leaders were beggaring the country. But within the bureaucracy was embedded a generation of brilliant technocrats who were trying to open the nation and its closed economy to the world. The crisis of legitimacy posed by the earthquake was a catalyst; it convinced the Mexican public and many of the technocrats that Mexico had to change in a fundamental...
...schools throughout the world. “They read The Giver in Germany,” Lowry says, “as the beginning of their unit on World War II—the teachers use the community in the book as an example of the effects of totalitarian rule to soften the blow of upcoming lessons on their country’s own past...
...totalitarian monarchies and fascist dictatorships of the Arab world have some innate virtue which allows them to viciously persecute women, gays, and non-Muslims thereby absolving them from any Harvard professor’s cries to divest? Does China possess some inalienable right to occupy Tibet such that the politically correct crowd finds them immune from divestment issues...