They walked shoulder to shoulder with men as the Egyptian population demanded the fall of the regime, as did the people of Tunisia, Libya and Yemen.
Stepanova's career fizzled under the Soviet regime, as did the career of Udaltsova, branded a formalist by Stalin.
This is not at the behest of the regime, as happened in Deng Xiaoping's China.
The DGBD manages to encompass both types of regimes as well as their crossover.
Evans subsequently went on the payroll of the Kazakh regime, as chairman of the state holding company Samruk.
The assembly also elected Moncef Marzouki, a human rights activist and former opponent of the Ben Ali regime, as president of Tunisia.
He supported the military dictator Phibunsongkhram in his coup d'etat in 1947 and served until 1957 in that regime as minister of defense and commander of the army.
Strauss served the Nazi regime as president of the musical section of the Ministry of Culture but resigned under pressure in 1935, in part because of his choice of Stefan Zweig, an Austrian Jew, to succeed Hofmannsthal as librettist for "Die Schweigsame Frau".
The group is led by Abu Ayadh al-Tunisi, who was pardoned and released from prison after the overthrow of former President Ben Ali's regime as part of efforts to promote reconciliation.
Millions of Iraqis, indeed the vast majority of the population (myself included), regarded the Ba'athist regime as one of the most brutal and evil dictatorships in the world.
