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Totalitarianism is a system in which a person becomes a cog

Totalitarianism is a system of political power in which the state, with the help of law enforcement agencies, establishes total control over all spheres of society's life. It differs from authoritarianism - another undemocratic system - by trying to penetrate the thoughts, personal life and even the beliefs of each individual. He is trying to forcefully regulate even the family life of citizens and establishes a system of total surveillance.

In the territory of the former Soviet Union, there are still nostalgic sufferings among citizens from the time of Stalin and longing for a "hard hand". They are opposed by people with opposing views, who claim that totalitarianism is Stalinism. They give the following arguments in favor of their theory: in the Stalinist empire the official ideology of "Marxism-Leninism" was dominated by all citizens. Fidelity to this worldview should have been demonstrated by everyone and everywhere - for example, references to the great achievements of socialist management were to be preceded by even far from politics scientific work on mathematics.

The second argument that totalitarianism is Stalinism is that in the country of Soviets of that period police control was established, and total control. From the kindergarten a feeling was born that the entire country lives surrounded by enemies, both external - imperialist "countries of the campfire" and internal - saboteurs, who are wrecking. This "enemy of the people" could be any citizen, and the majority of the population was afraid of representatives of a special all-powerful power structure - the Cheka, the NKVD, later the KGB.

In favor of the fact that totalitarianism is Stalinism, one-party system of power also testifies. The Communist Party produces ideological absolutism - every "deviationism" is cruelly persecuted. All organizations, the press and education are subordinate to the ruling party. All citizens are denied the right to dissent. The economy is completely regulated by the state, all private business is perceived as an encroachment on the unregulated power to generate income. Slave labor (Gulag) was used on a large scale.

So on what basis are our some pensioners nostalgic? If everything was so bad, then why are such sentiments towards the image of Stalin as a "friend of all sportsmen" and "father of the people"? Yes, the Soviet Union of the 1930s was a totalitarian regime, but in a later period it could no longer be called that. The later Soviet system, rather, fell under the description of authoritarianism. These two systems of an undemocratic state system - authoritarianism and totalitarianism - have many similarities, but one very important difference. The first system does not seek to penetrate and establish control over all spheres of society's life, limited only to political and spiritual-ideological.

With authoritarianism, there is a whole layer of the population that feels comfortable and safe in this regime: workers of large cities in the USSR, middle class under General de Gaulle in France, large industrialists under Pinochet. With totalitarianism, no one feels in safety, except for the top leadership. The history of the twentieth century is particularly abound in such regimes. The term "totalitarianism" was born in Italy in the time of Mussolini, but found its extreme manifestation a little later - in the Nazism of the Third Reich Hitler, the Khmer Rouge ideology , Maoism, Turkmenia under Turkmenbashi and Juche ideology in North Korea

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