During this period, despite the heavy repression, there always existed an opposition movement to the regime.
In more modern times, the Basques suffered heavy repression under the dictatorship of Gen. Francisco Franco.
In Syria, for 6 months, the movement didn't respond with violence, even in the face of heavy repression.
If the instability escalates, the government would be faced with the trade-off between heavy repression or complete social meltdown.
But I doubt that the heavy repression involved in "housewife" being the only life that an ordinary woman could respectably choose, has ever before been expressed with such darkly funny economy.
Regime security remains the highest priority: Power is concentrated in the hands of the president and his entourage, and is exercised in a specific form of authoritarianism that relies on confessional ties, selective inclusion through patronage and corruption, and heavy repression of dissent.
The Iranian revolution put an end to the rule of the Shah, who had alienated powerful religious, political and popular forces with a programme of modernization and Westernization coupled with heavy repression of dissent.
University campuses, one of the last bastions of dissent under the military regime, have also faced heavy repression.
The group, formed in 1959 to fight heavy repression of the Basque people by Spanish dictator Gen. Francisco Franco, has announced cease-fires before, only to give them up when the government refused to accede to its demands.
Islam reigned here for 1,000 years, but it is under heavy pressure from ethnic Chinese migration, breakneck development and heavy-handed repression.
