Today Mr. Tudor, an acolyte of Mr. Ceausescu, blames "enemy" minorities for Romania's problems and pledges to rule "with a machine gun".
These enemies can beimmigrants, minority groups, future leaders of mainstream parties or the state.
Shia Muslims, religious and ethnic minorities, enemy fighters and anyone accused of opposing their violent ideology have been targeted.
This has long been the stuff of science fiction and popular movies – like "Minority Report," "Enemy of the State" and even "1984" – but now it's on the verge of becoming possible.
They spoke about how in their everyday lives they feel isolated -- just like their Jewish Israeli peers -- how they live as "the other," the minority, the enemy within.
But if it doesn't, Modi and his generals will go hunting for an enemy: Pakistan, India's own minorities, and the pseudo-seculars.
The Iranians feel uncomfortably close to the chaos across the border in Iraq, where they have as many enemies among the Sunni minority as they have friends among their fellow Shias.
Its population is predominantly Shiite, enemies of the Sunni minority that had ruled the country under Mr. Hussein and had savagely suppressed a Shiite revolt in the area after the 1991 gulf war.
The Congress's partiality toward its own members, prejudice toward its majority community, and jobbery for its leadership's friends and relations all conspired to convince many Muslims that they had become second-class citizens in a land that, while perhaps on the verge of achieving "freedom" for some Indians, would be run by "infidels" and "enemies" to the Muslim minority.
The remarks proved embarrassing to Gov. George W. Bush, who has been running from one photo-op to another, posing relentlessly with black and brown children and teenagers, trying to show that he and his party are not the mortal enemies of ethnic minorities.
