Sentences with phrase «lived under communism»

He had lived under communism in Poland.

Especially prominent are politicized «language rituals,» also a characteristic of life under communism; «the more participants, the noisier the political rites, the more impressive seemed to be the performance of the entire political system.»

A society made over by totalitarian edict, as in much of the life under communism today, would not be the kingdom of God.

«For Merkel, who spent the first 35 years of her life under communism, far from being an expression of the wish to unite, as it was in 1989, the phrase was now being used to divide.

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It has been estimated that in less than the past 100 years, governments under the banner of communism have caused the death of somewhere between 40,472,000 to 259,432,000 human lives.

As Limbaugh notes, Benedict's predecessor, the late Pope John Paul II, was a noted foe of communism, after living under its oppressions in his native Poland.

Under communism the church was severely persecuted and many ended up in the gulag, in psychiatric hospitals and dead for being dissidents, i.e. true martyrs, who paid with their very lives.

As some of you know I was not born in the US but in a small eastern Europe country and the first 10 years of my life we were under communism.

Asked about Cuban communism, Garcia Márquez once told The New York Times that, while he admired the system and was a personal friend of the late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, he personally could never live under it.

This remarkable four - part documentary series provides intimate insight into Putin's personal and professional lives, from his childhood under communism, to his rise to power, his relations with four U.S. presidents, and his surprising takes on U.S. - Russian relations today.

Not bad for a movie characterized by Variety critic Peter Debruge, after its Telluride Film Festival premiere, as «the sort of joyless art film one might expect Polish nuns living under the clutches of 1960s communism to appreciate.»

The oppression of communism and the total control of civic life under the rule of communist ideology is one of the elements of Rauch's work.