They provide a stiff but effective reminder that in China's political system—"a people's democratic dictatorship"—it is the dictatorship bit that counts.This bout of repression, however, may reflect more than the usual cycle.
And the third is that to really make effective use of inflation it helps to have a bit of financial repression so that nominal interest rates don't wipe out the benefits of the inflation.
Amamou, who refers to himself as a member of the Pirate Party, also fears the media -- which, after years of repression began breathing a bit -- is being targeted, and that those in power would succeed in muzzling them at some point.
She has worked and lived there ever since, experiencing firsthand quite a bit of tumultuous history, including the repressions and then the fall of Communism, the disintegration of Yugoslavia into hostile national groups and the catastrophic violence that followed.
Years of repression had depoliticised its society.
A new wave of repression began a year later.
"There is a culture of repression here".
There was an enormous amount of repression.
Mayer favors an imaginative kind of repression.
The traditional parties of the right tended to prefer repression, or the threat of repression.
