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Years of
dictatorship
and sanctions decimated Iraq's business and professional classes.
But the region’s protest politics also reflects growing rejection of
dictatorship
and arbitrary rule.
The trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the possible bankruptcy of his company Yukos, Russia's biggest company, have incited cries that President Putin is returning the country to the bad old days of
dictatorship.
Whether Russians live under monarchy, communism, Yeltsin's cowboy market economy or Putin's supposed
dictatorship
of law, the result is always the same - the system despises its citizens, eliciting an equal and opposite reaction of derision and distrust.
Autocracy, not
dictatorship.
The King of Spain provided stability and continuity after the end of Franco’s
dictatorship.
The most immediate regional threat is North Korea, whose unpredictable
dictatorship
has invested its meager economic resources in nuclear and missile technology.
They have built up an image of authority and moral inflexibility, and have helped themselves by picking enemies who are damned by all and lacking any kind of power to move against them (the weakened military, for example, or civilian members of the 1976-1983 dictatorship).
Russia’s Preemptive Counter-RevolutionFLORENCE – In 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin returned his country to
dictatorship.
In many respects, Putin’s
dictatorship
is primitive.
Indeed, the central feature of the first decade of the Pope's reign was his struggle against dictatorship--Communist
dictatorship
in particular.
So John Paul II is no enthusiast of modern Western civilization, with its divorce from the world of values, and he contrasts with it the moral sensitivity of societies with fresh memories of decades of
dictatorship.
For most people, however, life under totalitarian
dictatorship
was not ennobling; it was, rather, a daily immersion in lies, spiritual depravity, and material corruption.
Unlike in a tightly controlled dictatorship, cutting off the head will not kill the monster.
Under the current soft authoritarian regime, I can see only one rather negative scenario for the future: authentic, full-fledged
dictatorship.
The question is whether it will be a Pinochet-style
dictatorship
bent on economic modernization, or a
dictatorship
with a revived totalitarian ideology?
Pakistan had changed, as military
dictatorship
and religious extremism in the north played havoc with the fabric of society.
Fortunately, memories of fascist
dictatorship
may have inoculated Spain and Portugal against the far-right virus, with left-wing anti-austerity parties and regionalists benefiting instead.
Elections and constitutions in Africa – Zimbabwe and Gabon’s
dictatorship
have both – have never been a safeguard against tyranny and human rights violations.
None has promoted dictatorship, let alone mass murder.
Having gained the trust of Western leaders and overseen the dismantling of the Soviet empire in Eastern Europe, he then resigned in 1990, declaring that Russia – under Gorbachev – was returning to
dictatorship.
The most recent decision of the regional tribunal, in mid-December, overturned a 1979 Brazilian amnesty law protecting military officials from prosecution for abuses committed during the country’s 21-year military
dictatorship.
If not, one would have to ask what had happened to the European spirit of the 1970’s and 1980’s, when countries such as Greece, Portugal, and Spain, which had just emerged from
dictatorship
and civil unrest, were welcomed into the European community of democratic states.
One is the establishment of democracy and the rule of law in countries that have recently emerged from
dictatorship.
Only a small minority exhibit populist tendencies that, if they gained power, could lead a society from democracy to
dictatorship.
For example, Argentina’s military dictatorship, which staged the 1978 competition, sought to bolster its own position by sharing in the host team’s ultimate victory.
Clearly, Chen’s hatred of dictatorship, whether Communist or KMT, consumed him, limiting his ability to think clearly.
There will be no Nazi
dictatorship
in America.
But whether America is threatened by such a
dictatorship
is not the right question.
Maduro, who recently gained a second six-year term as president in what most observers judged to be a sham election, has created a new constituent assembly (to bypass the opposition-controlled National Assembly) that is writing a new constitution that would further cement
dictatorship.
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