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dictatorship

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A type of government where absolute sovereignty is allotted to an individual or a small clique.

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A few years ago, the question "can there be a soft dictatorship inside the EU?" would have been dismissed as an abstruse hypothetical for students of law and political theory.

In light of all the gun violence we have seen in recent months, I have come to believe that in the very worst scenario – the US becoming a dystopian dictatorship with food riots, total censorship, zombies and Sarah Palin – it is the latter that has a better chance of saving my life and less likelihood of getting me killed.

Germany's dealing with its two difficult pasts – the East German state socialist dictatorship and, much more importantly, Nazism and the Holocaust – has almost universally been considered a success, even a model for others to emulate.

"The supporters of the former dictatorship," former dissident Freya Klier has warned, "sit in the Bundestag, in the media, in schools, in manifold commissions of our democracy".

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These days, many of us can be found curled up with a copy of The Hunger Games or Divergent, but what's very clear is that your average teenage girl will probably not end up saving the world from a corrupt dictatorship, like Katniss Everdeen, or be caught in a love triangle between a vampire and a werewolf, like Bella Swan.

"Too often the peoples in the region are presented a false choice between religious-based parties such as the Brotherhood and secular dictatorship.

There are also many declarations that show how Bergoglio tried to protect many people in his time during the military dictatorship.

Estela was a 47-year-old schoolteacher, housewife and mother of three in November 1977 when a death squad from Argentina's 1976-83 dictatorshipickeded her daughter Laura off a street in the city of La Plata where she lived, about 32 miles south of Buenos Aires.

All that is left is a story to tell our children: a story of thousands of Syrian people who confronted Assad's tyranny and dictatorship with tremendous sacrifices, and yet the world turned its back on them; a revolution that was poisoned by intruders, traitors and foreign money.

It has begun to form an elective dictatorship, in which the three major parties are united in their desire to create a security state; to wage unprovoked wars; to defend corporate power against democracy; to act as a doormat for the United States; to fight political dissent all the way to the bedroom and the birthing pool.

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