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Then, in the 1970s, after state-led modernization pushes had failed and governments had become increasingly repressive, education policies were infused with conservative, religious values – first in order to fight leftist opposition groups, and later to compete with Islamic groups on their own terrain.

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Individuals have managed to overcome the repressive restrictions in those regimes by recording their environment and telling their own stories on the internet.

But if you're a repressive government searching for political enemies, you might instead remove them, eliminate them, disrupt their social group, and those who remain behind lose social cohesion and organization.

To do so, she had to elude every big institution in her life: repressive governments, occupying armies and even armed border patrols.

Most of the globe experiences the state as repressive, as an organization that is concerned about denial of rights, about denial of justice, rather than provision of it.

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