Regime

dictatorship took place using a host of techniques, which led to a widespread sentiment of silence as consent. Although the regime oftentimes resorted to outright violence, the methods that will be discussed are those that took a non-violent form, even if an omnipresent violent threat lay beneath the surface. A notice issued by the military press director at the outset of the regime demonstrates the dominance of a reliance on censorship, or rather, auto-censorship, as a means to promote silence.…

militaristic Japan and many other states, had all changed due to totalitarian regimes. Freedom in Societies no longer existed. And soon, societies had experienced rapid change and life under Totalitarianism had took a turn. In America, a great wave of enthusiasm began to take place, which soon swept through all Chinese society. Younger men and women, didn’t take the new regime serious. Document 2 states “...for whom the new regime has an almost mystic value. They will gladly try anything…

“The fundamental reason why the old regime collapsed was the personality and weak leadership of the Tsar.” To what extent is this statement accurate? The sovereignty of Nicholas II led to the ultimate collapse and diminishment of autocratic rule in Russia. The statement, “The fundamental reason why the old regime collapsed was the personality and weak leadership of the Tsar,” is significantly accurate as demonstrated through the decisions and responses of the Tsar during and post many events…

the operational environment, the problem is defined by identifying the tendencies and potentials of the involved actors, the tensions of the existing conditions and the desired end state. Thus, for CENTCOM the problem was how to remove the Saddam regime and destroy the WMD capability as quickly as possible while maintaining an element of surprise and without alienating regional allies. To accomplish this, GEN Franks and his planners envisioned nearly simultaneous air and ground attacks…

Soviet state violence, dating back to the founding of the regime, was employed as a tool to construct an aesthetic harmonious society. “[Soviets believed that the removal of social aliens would not only eradicate enemies of the Soviet regime but would purify society and move the country toward communism. Viewed from this perspective, Stalinist terror was not a consequence of Russian backwardness or Stalin’s vindictiveness, but was instead an integral means by which Soviet leaders pursued their…

if it was a killing factory. They killed thousands and thousands of innocent Hungarian Jews and Gypsies each day just because of their religion and the way they looked or spoke. Others were killed if they did not follow the ideology of the Hitler’s regime. Sometimes, a family could be asleep and their home would be raided at night. The next thing you know, they would be dragged out to the camp’s gas chamber. This holocaust massacre is complex and difficult to digest because innocent people…

The Cambodian Genocide The Cambodian genocide lasted from 1975-1979 and killed “approximately 1.7 million people” (Kiernan). The Cambodian genocide was run by the “Khmer Rouge regime headed by Pol Pot combined extremist ideology with ethnic animosity and a diabolical disregard for human life to produce repression, misery, and murder on a massive scale“ (Kiernan). The Khmer Rouge’s goal during this genocide was to fix society by limiting religions and races. During the genocide “Certain minority…

“Big Brother,” a term used frequently in the 21st Century to express overly surveillent governments that was first coined by George Orwell in his dystopian novel 1984 which expressed dissent towards both the Soviet government and the Nazi regime. In George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984, education is encouraged to rise above ignorance while the dangers of censorship and ignorance are highlighted throughout the text through the actions of the book’s government and citizens, which is why it should…

thousand words” holds true in this sense. Established organizations fear disorder. Art, as it can be interpreted numerous ways and the interpretation can be largely unexpected and uncontrollable, introduce an element of uncontrollable disorder to a regime trying to suppress ideas. In the case of “Forbidden Songs,” art in the form of music was forcibly suppressed. Polish anthems were quickly replaced with German songs, and the Germans actively suppressed Polish music. In an ultimate act of…

complex hypocrisy is Sheinin’s main point. The book starts mid-Dirty War as he begins to describe the state of the media. The military government used this outlet to parade a sense of triumph and success in the new regime using popular personalities. But this was not the only time that the regime used others as tokens to benefit their image. Sheinin divulges into the Junta attempts to perform damage control because of the human rights violations being tossed through the United Nations. To show…