From propaganda to fear, Orwell’s Animal Farm remains a sharp lens on the universal tactics of totalitarian regimes—across history, politics, and even daily life.
Each time we allow the state to take control of our lives, we are following the path of Mao Zedong, Mullah Omar. It always starts small. But it’s a slippery slope. It never stays small for long.
In her magnum opus, ‘The Future is History’, Russian-American journalist Masha Gessen seeks to describe what she sees as Russia’s return to totalitarianism.
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.
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