What`s it like to live under a totalitarian regime?What do you think?

Answer 1

Do you have any American friends you can ask?

Answer 2

It would depend. I know someone from China, and they said you can basically do what you want, but when you do something the government doesn't like they'll wipe you out with no warning or second chance. I'd imagine it's a lot like here, except when you cross a line there is no tolerance. Rights like freedom of speech are typically restricted too.

Many seem to think it would be just plain awful, but I don't see how it could be. People living under such a regime would have to have faith in it to continue their daily lives and not want to overthrow the regime. Take for example Iraq. Saddam ruled for 30 years, and their were happy successful people living under him. Unfortunately they were a privileged minority.

Answer 3

As I merchant seaman I visited several countries that had totalitarian regimes, the USSR, Argentina and Poland among them. From my own experience for the elites in such countries life on a material level is always good. For the others of whatever class there is always an undercurrent of fear.

Having said that I was privileged to be in Gdansk in the early 1970s when workers at the Lenin shipyard went on strike. That time they failed and suffered horrendous consequences. But for me it proved that ordinary people could make a real difference despite the odds against them. One of the forgotten leaders ot that struggle died in a bedsit in Salford - a brave man who who should be remembered.

Totalitarianism must always be fought - and it is the ordinary people who do that - not those who the Western media hail to heavens as "freedom fighters".

Answer 4

People living under a totalitarian regime don't notice it until it's too late.

If there are any parts of our society that resemble it, they're packaged up in a glossy veneer so that we suspect nothing.

Most regimes are associated with poverty and want, so it's difficult to class ours as one, but there's no doubt at all in my mind that some areas of our lives are too controlled by the state for comfort.

Answer 5

It would be a horror beyond most Americans' comprehension. We've become so desensitized and apathetic we don't realize how possible it really is. The more power we allow our government to have over us the more likely it is to happen. If we don't get back to adherence to the Constitution we're going to head down a very dark path.

Answer 6

Fear, to the extent that it involves everything one does. The experiences of those who have lived under such conditions are extreme. Americans who are under that much stress are given medication to cope with daily life and are given special consideration after committing crimes.

Answer 7

Visit North Korea and find discover the wonders of totalitarianism for yourself.

Answer 8

I don't know. I've never actually been to America. Anyone?

I'm joking by the way.

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Re: the answer after this one. I decided to take your advice to my friend Wladek and caught a DC3 to Havana. I caught a rickshaw down to the local star chamber and erected a big sign saying "Castro likes to put his big fat cigar in George Bush's butthole". Nothing happened. I even tried writing it in Spanish. Nada. A fat policeman with a moustache sitting there farted, groaned and continued reading his Pravda. Cuba is a great place. I'd rather live there than where you live. Wherever it is. If you lived next door then I'd move.

Answer 9

Why don't you interview the people of North Korea? If you do a thousand interviews, surely you will find one that will say something favorable about it.

Answer 10

I think that is a terrible thing, because is horrible live in a place in which u can't speak freely and where u have always checked in all your actions

Answer 11

Try living under the rule of bush's best friends Musharraf or Prince Bandar. Did a republican ever meet a dictator he didn't like?