Sentences with phrase «communist dictators»

Her transformative vision would also take central planning far beyond the realms already practiced during the most totalitarian epochs of Communist dictators Mao Tse - tung and Josef Stalin.

It would also take central planning far beyond the realms already practiced during the most totalitarian epochs of Communist dictators Mao Zedong and Joseph Stalin.

Besides outstanding members of the scientific association that gathers as the Mummy Congress, Pringle limns the many varieties of mummies, from the world's oldest, preserved by the high - altitude climate of the Andes, to modern Communist dictators, self - mummifying Buddhists, and the subjects of extreme cosmetic surgery.

In fact, quite a number of the worst communist dictators in history learned the discourse of dogmatic persuasion during their religious educations.

I suspect that the number of deaths attributed communist dictators is a drop in the bucket compared to the estimated 90 % death rate of indigenous Americans when Christian explorers arrived in the New World.

So blaming the crimes of these Communist dictators on their lack of belief in gods is like blaming their crimes on their lack of belief in fairies.

Now — can you say the equivalent of all this about any of the Communist dictators?

thefinisher1 You may not be any of the religious types who have killed, or terrorized, but I'm not a communist dictator either.

Duh, shouldn't have said that... now they're gonna call him a muslim communist dictator again... hahahaha

Ironically, the Brexit campaign run by some British politicians reminds one of Enver Hoxha, the communist dictator who ruled Albania for fifty years from the end of the World War II.

In a speech to the Bow Group the former Tory Chairman and self - appointed keeper of the Thatcherite flame will «compare the Tory leader to the communist dictator Pol Pot over the way in which he has tried to «purge the memory of Thatcherism»» (Telegraph).

«I do agree with Nicole that the speaker — I would say she's to the left of Mao,» Mr. Grimm told the Observer on Saturday, referring to the 20th century Chinese Communist dictator, Mao Zedong.

Strangely, she admires a Caribbean communist dictator, General Anton Vincent (Michael Caine), who writes her back, even sending her a revolutionary flag.

Mao Zedung, China's ruthless Communist dictator, had pinned his hopes for total Tibetan submission on controlling the impressionable Dalai Lama.

We see Khrushchev's chaperone Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. - later Richard Nixon's running mate - working his political magic on the cantankerous mayor of Los Angeles who refused to play gracious host to the communist dictator.

On the set of the film Can - Can, Shirley MacLaine and Frank Sinatra gave the communist dictator a taste of good old fashioned American titillation.

It's a succession of stories unified by continuing characters — among them, three hairy - faced men (vulpine Desmond, simian Danilo, and Mister Morgen); pre-WWII diva Olympia, who was a companion of Yugoslavia's communist dictator, Tito; a gelatinous fat man; three scheming bureaucrats (maybe); a writer; and the cop who bugs him (and, earlier, Desmond)-- and a plot in which most people become George Romero ghouls.

In the 70's, David Rockefeller extended his praise to communist dictator of China, Mao Zedong, in an article published in the New York Times, for his country's one - child policy, which will be the model for the Western nations to follow in the future — hence China's «Most Favored Nation» status granted by the UN.

President Obama, of course, is completely on board the AGW alarmist bandwagon, having signed a climate deal in Beijing last November with Chinese Communist dictator Xi Jinping.

The Romanians had overthrown and executed the brutal Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu just two years earlier, and the country's economy was floundering.

Not exact matches

The communist Khmer Rouge took control of the country under a dictator, Pol Pot.

Moreover, American distrust of government has long fed on the abuses of state power abroad, whether by despotic monarchs, fascist dictators or communist tyrants.

And, you're forgetting that the communists were totalitarian regimes, like that of the Christian Hitler, the Muslim Hussein, and dozens of other dictators, Tzars, Emperors and kings throughout history who have slaughtered lots of people.

Absurd attempts to conflate atheism with despotic dictators eg:» Atheists have tortured and murdered more people in the last 100 years than were killed in all previous centuries» or slightly less inaccurately: «Atheists killed more than 100,000,000 people in the 20th century» The syllogism: — Communist despots ordered or failed to prevent the deaths of millions in the 20th century — Not believing in God is a tenet of communism — Therefore, atheists killed millions in the 20th century deliberately misrepresents atheism.

In this particular instance it is not very difficult to imagine scenarios in the not - too - distant future in which there might occur resurgences of socialist policies and ideals: the failure of neo-capitalist regimes in developing societies and / or the formerly Communist countries in Europe to achieve economic take - off; the insight granted to sundry dictators and despots that, while socialism invariably immiserates the masses, it is a very good recipe for enriching those who claim to hold power as the vanguard of the masses; the «creeping socialism» (still an aptly descriptive term) brought on by massive government intervention in the economy in the name of some societal good, e.g., there could be an environmentalist road to socialism, or a feminist one, or one constructed (perhaps inadvertently) with some other building blocks of politically managed regulations and entitlements; or, last but not least, the actual restoration of socialism, by coup or by voting, in a number of countries, beginning with Russia.

Radicals, they claim, selectively criticize Western - oriented dictators and seldom denounce the flagrant abuse of human rights in communist countries.

When the army overthrew dictator Fulgenico Batista, Cuba became a communist state and therfore atheist.

Tonight proved the king is right, and the dictator is still living in his own communist regime.

Why did it go around spreading anti-communist sentiment to an extent where they defied the internal politics of countries and preferred to instill a dictator who would ruthlessly crackdown communist?

The dictators in communist nations tended to take the place of monarchs but that never really caught hold in the US even though there's still that relationship in the minds of many.

Nowadays not only the diplomatic relations between western democracies and dictators of the middle east and Asian continents are good, but there is an incredible amount of trade for goods in China for example, and it does seem not bother anyone in western democracies to trade with these countries, and thus directly finance the torture of innocents and even expansion of the communist ideology in China.

Her chilling impressions of a dreary, muffled, and depleted land are juxtaposed with a uniquely to - the - point history of how North Korea became an industrialized Communist nation supported by the Soviet Union and China and ruled by Kim Il Sung, then collapsed catastrophically into poverty, darkness, and starvation under the dictator's son, Kim Jong Il.

Since the basis of Jewish prayers consists of communal singing, Jews literally defied the communists right under their noses, with their Dictator's blessing (so to speak).

The series journeys through history exploring iconography and idealism across a cultural spectrum, from model planes and boats inspired by Communist China's food coupons of the 1950s and 1960s to portraits of fallen dictators.

But by the early 1930s, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin ordered the propagation of Communist Party - approved socialist realism in the arts.

What we find is that the old USSR, Communist China, Zimbabwe, Iran, and every other tin pot dictator not only did little to protect the envirnoment but also destoyed large areas for purely ideological gains.

Ms Soapbox was trolling through Hansard searching for signs of intelligent life under the Dome when she discovered (sandwiched between the Wildrose Opposition's accusation that the Premier appointed a Soviet - era communist to serve as her deputy chief of staff and the NDP MLA for Edmonton - Ellerslie admires «the worst leftist dictators») a few glimmers of wit....