"Inevitably, from a historical point of view, this regime will not survive," he said quietly.

It made these regimes survive and put these countries into debt.

The regime in Beijing will survive with or without a veto.

So long as the army is loyal, the regime will survive.

Until now, the regime has survived through a combination of repression and flexibility.

"They are open to reform, but only if there are international guarantees that at the end of the process the regime will survive."

"No Marxist regime can survive with a free press."

As the sanctions begin to bite, who would bet the Iranian regime will survive another two years, let alone four?

Nevertheless, the regime survives until the end of the Cold War.

It is hard to see how such a regime could have survived for so long, after bringing such unexampled disaster on its people.