His weekly broadcasts excoriating Pinochet's rule of terror were legendary.
People everywhere prefer freedom to slavery, prosperity to squalor, self-government to the rule of terror and torture.
But "Spy TV" is something else; it operates not by the rules of show biz but by the rule of terror.
The most oppressive Stalinist features were eliminated: the rule of terror was curbed, the persecution of the Roman Catholic Church was ended, and the collectivization of agriculture was abandoned.
During Khrushchev's description of some of the worse aspects of Stalin's rule of terror, some delegates were reported to have shouted: "How did you stand it?
"Fourth, moral authority, that's lacking," he told reporters, then for the second time in two days accused Chinese officials of a "rule of terror" in Tibet.
His rule of terror is a complete betrayal of the cause of liberation and self-determination for which so many Eritreans fought and died.
Patrick McGuinness, The Last Hundred Days Set in a 1980 Romania full of secret service agents, ravaged beauty and political turbulence, charting the fall of Nicolae Ceausescu's rule of terror.
The Buddhist leader accused Chinese officials of having promulgated a rule of terror and cultural genocide, but the government-controlled New China News Agency reported that police had exercised "great restraint" while mobs stoned, stabbed, and clubbed them.
While the much-anticipated report is drawn mainly from open sources, this is the first time such a well-compiled and thorough examination of Kadyrov's alleged rule of terror has been made public.
