Every country in the region was a military dictatorship.

这个地区的每个国家都是军事独裁国。

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I think it is a combination of a very,very distinct special language on one hand and then on the other, she has really a story to tell about growing up in a dictatorship but also growing up as a minority in another country and also growing up sort of a stranger for your own family.

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But his opponents accused him of mishandling the economy and taking the country towards dictatorship.

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But it may not matter to the president, who seems keen to turn back the hands of time to an era of absolute dictatorship, when the country was awash with spies spilling its citizens' secrets to keep them in tow and a dictator at the helm.

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