These six young men raising the flag came to symbolize all of America coming together to beat back a totalitarian aggressor.

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Unfortunately, what Ecuadorians voted for was the birth of a totalitarian or semi-totalitarian project that unavoidably will bring about future conflict.

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Prof Ratzinger, as a German who had grown up in the 1930s, understood all too well what a totalitarian regime could do.

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Well, Chamberlain was the biggest appeaser to a totalitarian ideology called fascism.

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"Fahrenheit 451" follows a "fireman" who is employed by a totalitarian government to burn books, which ignite at the temperature in the book's title.

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Although businesspeople clearly share the same freedom of speech prerogatives afforded anyone not living under a totalitarian regime, I recommend they focus on improving their return to their stakeholders.

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However when a situation can be seen through the lens of difference, and a position is simply a matter of opinion not a totalitarian statement of fact, then cooperation and compromise is possible.

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Yet in the same way that the word Waterloo has come to mean crushing and final defeat, so has Stalingrad become a symbol of incredible savagery and endurance, as the armies of the two greatest totalitarian regimes of the 20th Century fought to the death.

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