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Features of a totalitarian
state (common for communism and fascism):
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total
control of society; an attempt to dominate all spheres of social life
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extensive
mechanisms of terror by secret services
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censorship,
monopoly for information, centrally steered propaganda
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ideology
- official and obligatory for all
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lack
of legal opposition parties, rules of a mass mono-party
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clearly
defined internal and external enemies
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a
lack of a rule of law (in the sense it exists in democratic countries)
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radical
detachment from the past
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a
new, ideal type of a man; tall, blonde Aryan in the Nazi-Germany, strong
worker in communism
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nihilistic
and/or selective approach to traditions
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