Yet another totalitarian communism expanded its domination.

Because glamour can be very totalitarian and deceptive.

Is it totalitarian to require reading, writing and arithmetic?

I don't like beautiful buildings built for totalitarian regimes.

One reviewer for a Roman Catholic newspaper called it totalitarian.

But a totalitarian regime that forces its political opponents to flee, presents special circumstances.

The end of the Second World War marked the end of one totalitarian ideology fascism.

In the speaker's opinion, advocates of independence were actually communists whose dream was a totalitarian regime in the country.

Equally important is shielding young people from totalitarian ideas by providing them with positive experiences of democracy and cultural tolerance.

It will not be possible to restore the rule of international law or make the Organization truly democratic as long as the Council exercises totalitarian powers.

The observer for Interfaith International spoke about the lack of justice in countries with totalitarian regimes and mentioned the examples of Cambodia and the Soviet Union.

In commemorating those who lost their lives during the Second World War, we must not fail to commemorate the crimes against humanity committed by both totalitarian regimes.

As a region where numerous States have recently achieved peaceful transition from totalitarian rule to democracy, we can make a constructive contribution to the work of the Security Council.

Moreover, totalitarian methods including intimidation, political and administrative sanctions, and even deportation were being used to put pressure on activists, in violation of all international standards of human rights.

Free peoples everywhere should remember that totalitarian forces and ideas cannot be defeated by being nice and accommodating. The Commission on Human Rights must rid itself of members that detest freedom.

Instead, it had persisted in imposing a totalitarian state that deprived the Cuban people of the right to express dissent and of a voice in any kind of possible political and economic reform.

To speak of the conditions of human rights therefore cannot be in violation of the Olympic Charter. To speak of human rights is not politics only authoritarian and totalitarian regimes try to make it so.

The French philosopher Jean François Revel saw the rise of violent dictatorships in the twentieth century as driven by a totalitarian temptation. What we are witnessing today is something a bit less sinister call it an authoritarian temptation.

As for fascism, its political heirs in countries like Italy and France must contend with the stigma of the past. Vivid memories of total war and genocide, frequently revived, hinder any revival of the totalitarian parties of the right.

The restoration of central authority has been going on for some time. Indeed, today the center almost completely dictates Russian internal politics and economics, though not within a totalitarian or autocratic framework, but in a democratic and market based fashion.

Where in the world can you find a more isolated, regimented and militarized dynastic mutation of a communist totalitarian system than in North Korea? Where on earth can you see a nuclear armed, missile shooting panhandler such as Kim Jong il?

The last prisoners were released in 1987, three years into Mikhail Gorbachev s rule. Now it was being restored as a Gulag Museum by Memorial, a human rights group founded by the dissident physicist Andrei Sakharov, to remind Russians of their totalitarian past.

Ukraine s Orange Revolution, as well as Georgia s Rose Revolution, seems to confirm this. While revolutions in the late 1980 s and early 1990 s were directed against totalitarian communist regimes, nowadays they aim to get rid of this mafia type post communism.

Since last year it has been enlisting people with historic knowledge and understanding of totalitarian regimes to help guide its response to events in Belarus. This advice helped shape the parliament s strong stance against maintaining unnecessary economic engagement with Lukashenka and his henchmen.

Much of the history of the two centuries since Beethoven composed his opera has centered on that quest for freedom the fight against colonial powers, the campaigns for basic human rights, the resistance to modern totalitarian and authoritarian regimes. On the whole, liberty has triumphed.

Who are you going to believe, Groucho once asked, me, or your own eyes? For hundreds of millions of citizens in Communist run countries in the twentieth century, the me in the question was a dictator or oligarchy ruling with totalitarian or authoritarian powers.

Because the main threats to European security at the beginning of the 21st century stem from that region. The threats concentrated in the Middle East are diverse regional conflicts, totalitarian religious ideologies, terrorism, nuclear armament programs, blockades to modernization, unstable regimes and hegemonic ambitions.

If one imagines a deviant group in some society gaining access to biological or nuclear materials, it is possible terrorists could destroy millions of lives. To kill so many people in the 20th century, a Hitler or Stalin required the apparatus of a totalitarian government.

So totalitarian or authoritarian states more interested in hiding their own oppression than fairly judging other nations can easily trigger a sort of political pogrom against any democracy that annoys enough tyrants. Sadly, many free countries seem utterly indifferent to the ongoing campaign against Israel.

This was Russia s fate after its 1917 revolution, which brought Lenin s Bolsheviks to power and condemned the country to 75 years of totalitarian rule. In the same way, the Muslim Brotherhood could seize power in Egypt and impose a far more oppressive regime than Mubarak s ever was.

More fundamentally, no one should think that North Korea s totalitarian communist system can be changed overnight. No one inside or outside can remove its anachronistic dynastic communist regime, and no outsider can hope to modify quickly the policy behavior of its fossilized military, party, and administrative bureaucrats.

Second, we need to appreciate the special and innovative nature of the democracy created by Western European elites after 1945. In light of the totalitarian experience, they stopped identifying democracy with parliamentary sovereignty the classic interpretation of modern representative democracy everywhere but in the United States.

The Republic of Moldova and Georgia will also undertake joint diplomatic steps in international forums against aggressive separatism, which is an antithesis of democracy, and epitomizes totalitarian structures, terrorism, massive violation of human rights, trafficking, arms and drug smuggling, unlawful trade and money laundering, transnational corruption.

And although adults may not be quite at the level of totalitarian regimes, kids have no, or very little say in making the rules, when really the attitude should be reciprocal, meaning that the adult population should learn and take into account the wishes of the younger population.

We further believe that there is no alternative to free and fair elections in the countries that have emerged from totalitarian dictatorship and foreign rule, and that no external force can prevent freedom loving peoples from voting and electing their leadership in accordance with their aspirations and beliefs.

The truth is that the BDS movement is nothing more than a sinister caricature of the anti totalitarian and anti apartheid struggles. It is a campaign whose instigators have no aim other than to discriminate against, delegitimize, and vilify an Israel that in their mind never stopped wearing its yellow star.

Yet many have. Indeed, since the referendum, many have acted as if Tsipras were the last eurozone democrat, as if he had faced a totalitarian clique (as described by the far right French politician Marine Le Pen) against which he valiantly stood firm (in the words of far left politician Jean Luc Mélenchon).

ISIS s army of psychopaths and adventurers was launched as a startup by Sunni magnates in the Gulf who envied Iran s success with its Lebanese Shia proxy, Hezbollah. It was the combination of an idea and the money to propagate it that created this monster and nurtured its ambition to forge a totalitarian caliphate.

Most threatening, however, is the possibility that the EU could collapse, triggering a third unfreezing. The EU, established to break the destructive cycle of European nationalism that had facilitated the rise of two totalitarian systems and caused two world wars, amounted to the creation of a prototype of a humane world order.

It is not a pleasant thought and perhaps even a dangerous one but the fact remains that many people, not just ideologues, put their hopes in the twentieth century s authoritarian and totalitarian experiments, viewing politicians like Mussolini and even Stalin as problem solvers, while liberal democrats were written off as dithering failures.

I had thought always and in fact, had written this in my first book this was a book about gardening that lawns were nature under culture's boot, that they were totalitarian landscapes, and that when we mowed them we were cruelly suppressing the species and never letting it set seed or die or have sex.

Political reforms, privatization, anti corruption measures, a search for new leaders untainted by compromise with the former regime, and implementation of a pro European foreign policy met no resistance. But the totalitarian mindset has since resurfaced in leaders who, with their claim to represent the will of the majority, appropriate more and more power.

The EU, established to break the destructive cycle of European nationalism that had facilitated the rise of two totalitarian systems and caused two world wars, amounted to the creation of a prototype of a humane world order. After being its own and thus the world s worst enemy for centuries, Europe became a beacon of peace.

This might seem strange to the Western mind, for which the great Soviet space achievements and the USSR existed as separate entities while everyone praised Soviet science, very few admired the totalitarian USSR. But for Tereshkova and other women of her generation, the great Soviet state and the daring achievements of Soviet science were inseparable.

We will also continue to work vigorously to further develop the rule of law and democracy and to ensure a maximum level of protection of human rights throughout the territory of the Republic of Moldova, so that our citizens in the area controlled by the totalitarian separatist regime from Tiraspol can also enjoy them.