The fundamental differences between totalitarian and democratic rule remained.

After 40 years of totalitarian rule that manipulated them, citizens have started to think and act freely.

To do that we would have to go back to totalitarian rule.

This is an inevitably difficult process, after years of totalitarian rule.

The Communist leader who imposed martial law in 1981 also watched over the transition from totalitarian rule.

In the East, nationality questions long frozen by totalitarian rule again glow hot.

For Poland, dismemberment and harsh totalitarian rule was the reality.

But the country's ethnic and religious diversity has produced opposition to the Taliban's totalitarian rule.

One group is still in transition from centralized planning and totalitarian rule.

For some it may be hard to believe that it's been 25 years since we've been living under Big Brother and totalitarian rule.