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Synonyms for totalitarian

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Synonyms for totalitarian

characterized by or favoring absolute obedience to authority

one who imposes or favors absolute obedience to authority

an absolute ruler, especially one who is harsh and oppressive

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Synonyms for totalitarian

an adherent of totalitarian principles or totalitarian government

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characterized by a government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control

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of or relating to the principles of totalitarianism according to which the state regulates every realm of life

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Croatian Minister Gordan Grlic Radman said that "we should all remember victims of all totalitarian regimes." At the same time, he did not hide his satisfaction with coming to BiH, pointing out that Croatia is BiH's greatest advocate for a European path.
The foreign ministers reminded that Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Poland and Romania have been reborn as free and democratic nations after decades of totalitarian rule.
returning the country to the regularity of the totalitarian regime.
Speaking on the European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism, Tsacheva pointed out that "a totalitarian regime in North Africa has fallen just hours ago,"
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Summary: Washington - The polisario leaders dismiss anyone who dares to break with the totalitarian thiking, which is the system of governance in the Tindouf camps, said, on Thursday, Mustapha Salma Ould Sidi Mouloud, Chief Inspector of the polisario police, who had recently announced his support for the autonomy plan for the southern provinces, the Sahara.
The book unwittingly justifies a totalitarian mentality and explains why most of our democracies today are, in reality, thinly disguised totalitarian regimes.
[1] Some on the Left have tried to characterize current-day society as "totalitarian" because of its all-pervasive, brand-and advertising-driven consumerism.
William Manchee's Tarizon: The Liberator (Book One of the Tarizon Trilogy) (Top Publications 978-1-929976-48-5) follows a civil war between a malevolent totalitarian world government and a fairly benevolent totalitarian world government on a planet with a large minority of Earth &233;migr&233;s.