Dictatorships

"I have always [been] very critical of all kinds of dictatorships, dictatorships from the left, dictatorships from the right," he said. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In an interview, Mr. Cuomo said, "If you believe in dictatorships, vote for him." ❋ Jacob Gershman (2010)

Producing in dictatorships like China and meeting “their laws” is just ridiculous. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Them mentality are those who ignore the likes of the North Koreans, the Chinese, the various African Genocide, the various Islamist Genocides and massacres, the Latin American dictatorships, and on and on and on. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Cleansing his country of Soviet influence meant little more than replacing it with a sickly suffocating cult of personality, but in dictatorships the line between necessary political hygiene and nauseating self-promotion is often a fine one, and especially so in a land where the leading soap powder is called Barf. ❋ Unknown (2007)

When have pro-democracy efforts to help dissidents in dictatorships * not* led to some getting arrested, from the Soviet era onward? ❋ Unknown (2007)

Protesting evil dictatorships is typically a waste of time, because evil dictatorships are notably unresponsive to popular sentiment. ❋ Unknown (2007)

As to waterboarding itself -- a centuries-old method of torture that became commonplace in the interrogation dungeons of various Latin American dictatorships a few decades back -- Meyers describes it blandly as "a technique in which restrained prisoners are threatened with drowning ..." ❋ Unknown (2008)

While it initially appeared that there would be no form of legal justice meted out in any of the former Latin American dictatorships, accidentally surviving archives in combination with political will, living testimony, exhumation of mass graves, and other investigative methods, are having a powerful impact on facing the recent past. ❋ Unknown (2008)

More recently, Opus Dei has been heavily involved in several murderous Latin American dictatorships, for example those of Pinochet (Chile) and Fujimori (Peru). ❋ Unknown (2008)

So I read about Mussolini's Italy in the 1920s; Stalin's Russia and Hitler's Germany in the 1930s; I read about East Germany in the 1950s and Czechoslovakia in the 1960s and Chile in 1973, as well as about other Latin American dictatorships; I read about Communist China in the late 1980s and early 1990s. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Police in long-term dictatorships like China and the Soviet Union knows the lessons of 21 July all too well. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Italy in the 1920s, Germany in the 30s, East Germany in the 50s, Czechoslovakia in the 60s, the Latin American dictatorships in the 70s, China in the 80s and 90s - all dictatorships and would-be dictators target newspapers and journalists. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Prime responsibility for that suffering does go to the Colossus of the North, which in the pursuit of economic exploitation and Cold War paranoia consistently preferred Latin American dictatorships to serious experiments in popular rule and strangled the Cuban economy with an embargo in place for the almost five decades since Castro dared move against the U.S. corporations that claimed to own much of the island. ❋ Unknown (2008)

"In the really disintegrated countries like Liberia, Somalia, Rwanda and Zaire, you saw long-term dictatorships propped up by a superpower," says Holly Burkhalter, advocacy director of Human Rights Watch/Africa. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Guess what it would have to be ours, why? because to achive anything along the lines of their ideal Conservative utopian system DEMOCRACY would have to occured anfd for the attainment of their lofty ambitions, from economic purity to socially conservative moral behavior these ideals have only been obtainable in dictatorships, like Singapore and Kuwait. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The country suffered for many years under his [dictatorship]. Adolf Hitler and [Joseph Stalin] were [dictators]. ❋ Kittyangel (2010)

Iraq was once under [the control] of the [dictator] [Saddam Hussein]. Germany was once under the control of the dictator Adolf Hitler. ❋ Christopher J. Bradley (2003)

I'm going to be a [dictator] when I grow up, and I'll end poverty...but I'll [endorse] the death [penalty]. Dictatorship ❋ King Of Jing (2006)

Dictatorships [don] not [work] in [practice] ❋ Cako (2004)

[dictatorship] [definition] [N/A] ❋ Tripleh964 (2010)

the biggest dictatorship in the world is a [catholic] [middle school] in [canada] ❋ Jack The Great Mexican (2022)

❋ Salaschile (2003)

In [2015], [Saudi Arabia] is an [example] of a theocratic dictatorship. ❋ Evercraft (2015)

James is the president of his own fart dictatorship when he uses [his secret] weapon to [disperse] a crowd at a movie theater ([with great power comes great responsibility]). ❋ Thebertananators (2011)

The [USSR] was an [example] of an [attempted] Dictatorship of the Proletariat. ❋ Ihatewom_332 (2021)