Totalitarianism Is...

• Total control of the country in the government's hands
• Paranoia and fear on the parts of the leader(s)
• A distortion of nationalism
• A subjugation of individual rights
• No guarantees made or kept by the government
• Free speech punishable by death
• A policy of agression
• Total control over cultural aspects of the country
• The use of a scapegoat to blame all the problems on
• Paranoia and fear on the part of the people
• Far too much police power
• A permanent state of crisis
• Capable of genocide and mass murder
• Responsible for many of the worst horrors of the twentieth century

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