Born out of occupation and civil war, like its comrade parties that once ruled from Warsaw to Vladivostok, the Chinese Communist Party has brought down some curses of its own too: the famine of Mao's Great Leap Forward, the violence of the Cultural Revolution, the enduring repression of the laogai, China's gulag.
For most of its people, there was tremendous hope that the decades of enduring repression under authoritarian governments would soon come to an end.
Because the rich diversity of these traditions notwithstanding, the centerpiece of the Passover story remains the same: a people yearning for freedom and steadfast in their commitment to moral principles and a belief in a better future, even in the face of enduring hardships, repression and persecution.
Many are instinctively on the political right after enduring years of repression in the former Soviet bloc.
In fact the play is largely about Charlotte's enduring the cruel repressions of the Nazis and the Communists, and her harrowing tales of survival through the eras of the Gestapo and the Stasi are nothing short of breathtaking.
Former Tunisian dissidents described enduring brutal and persistent repression under President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who held power from 1987 to 2011, Nugent said.
Last year's Bellamy – Chabrol's 50th feature – starred Gérard Depardieu and showed that the filmmaker's enduring interests in genre, repression, ambiguous morality and deceptive beauty remained as current as when he began making films half a century earlier.
"Civic groups are enduring another round of repression, but still more and more obedient vassals are awakening as citizens," Mr. Xu wrote in an assessment of his career of activism, which he published on his blog in May.
Whether Mr. Trebicka's death was a result of an accident or something more sinister, the public reaction has revealed how little faith the people of this small, poor European country have in their authorities after enduring decades of Stalinist repression followed by years of everyday corruption.
President Clinton and Prime Minister Blair called attention to the plight of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese democracy leader, who is enduring a new round of repression under a military junta that robbed her of an election victory a decade ago.
His aim was to discover truth and a sense of freedom amid the repression, militarism and isolation his country was enduring.
