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The
dictatorship
of Mengistu Haile Mariam was Africa’s most blood-curdling Marxist regime, and was replaced by today’s ruling EPRDF, whose “Revolutionary Democracy” is but a more subtle variation on the same theme.
The tortoise of democracy beats the hare of benevolent
dictatorship.
Spain after the Franco
dictatorship
stabilized itself by granting autonomy to its regions, which in many ways now behave like independent units.
As a dictatorship, China can ignore protests by workers and companies suffering from US tariffs.
By doing so, it opened the way to military
dictatorship.
Then Taiwan did several things: by establishing science parks, it provided a good environment for R&D; by deregulating, it provided opportunities for entrepreneurs; last, but emphatically not least, by ending the
dictatorship
and ushering in democracy, it provided the basis for that universal desire of people to pursue their individual freedom and happiness.
The military
dictatorship
established by Park Chung-hee in 1962 adopted an aggressive economic development policy, partly to contain North Korea.
Once Korean students overthrew the
dictatorship
of Park's successor, Chung Doo-hwan, Korean scientists, engineers, economists, and others, returned home en masse , bringing knowledge acquired in the US with them.
They represent a very different age, which one is tempted to call democratic, even if Russia today is more like a soft
dictatorship.
More than thirty years after the disappearance of the long
dictatorship
of Francisco Franco, Spain finds itself confronted by the shadows of a past it has deliberately chosen not to confront.
There is no power – save a new violent
dictatorship
– that can bring Shi’a, Sunnis, and Kurds to live once again in one body politic.
This might seem ironic, coming from a German and a confirmed Atlanticist, but it is actually fitting, because Germany, in its transformation from a murderous
dictatorship
into a peaceful liberal democracy, needed the US more than any country.
During these years Parliament framed the country's democratic operation, making up for what had been eliminated during forty years of
dictatorship.
The American preference for making anti-communist allies, however unsavory, tied Washington to Pakistan’s increasingly Islamist dictatorship, while India’s non-aligned democracy drifted toward the secular Soviet embrace.
Southern governors argue that control of the presidency should remain with the south for years to come, because the north controlled the country during more than three decades of
dictatorship.
Of course, it is possible for soldiers to assure a transition to democracy, as they did four decades ago in my homeland, Portugal, following their overthrow of the Salazar/Caetano
dictatorship.
Antoon opposed both Saddam Hussein’s brutal
dictatorship
and the 2003 US-led invasion, which plunged the country into chaos, inflamed ethnic tensions, and killed hundreds of thousands of civilians.
Hadjiev and his family fled to Europe in 2001, escaping one of the world’s most repressive regimes: the absolutist
dictatorship
of the late Saparmurat Niyazov, who fancied himself “Turkmenbashi,” the father of all Turkmen.
Bolsonaro has repeatedly supported the military
dictatorship
that reigned from 1964 to 1985, when the government tortured and murdered its opponents.
As far back as 1999, he called for the National Congress to be shuttered, and lamented that the
dictatorship
had not killed 30,000 more people, starting with former Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso.
Similarly, the West will have to understand that the Islamic Republic is not a monolithic
dictatorship.
Just how viable such a
dictatorship
is in the Internet age remains an open question.
The next hardest, particularly in a country like Russia which has experienced nothing but
dictatorship
for a millennium, is knowing whom to hand over power to.
Though it had moved from
dictatorship
to democracy, the trappings of the fascist system lived on through a corporatist approach to market regulation and widespread government meddling in finance and industry.
Through tricks and threats Iraq's fallen
dictatorship
largely succeeded in keeping this tragedy under cover.
All of these historical prophets – whether heralding the realization of the Absolute Idea or the
dictatorship
of the proletariat – proved to be miserably wrong.
This left a vacuum in both countries, with Russia’s government struggling to justify an elected autocracy, and China’s one-party
dictatorship
seeking a new source of legitimacy.
The end of Nigeria's military
dictatorship
and the return to civilian, elected government created countless beneficial freedoms.
When I joined the UN, it was almost unthinkable for the organization to take sides between democracy and dictatorship, or to seek to intervene in members’ internal affairs.
The attempt to impose a benevolent creditors’
dictatorship
is now being met by a debtors’ revolt.
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