Totalitarian regimes share the ambition to exert thoroughgoing, fanatical control over the hearts and minds of an entire population, regardless of their divergent ideological roots.

“what was new was not the alleged achievement of total control it was the ambition the articulation of the ambition that it might be possible to exercise such fundamental thoroughgoing control of entire populations”

The public in North Korea is forced to live under strict and oppressive rules, including severe punishments for consuming South Korean entertainment.

“anyone found watching or possessing South Korean entertainment will be sentenced to 15 years in labor camps”

The Islamic Republic of Iran is a barbaric and unstable totalitarian regime that represents a global threat beyond its own borders.

“as far as the Islamic Republic is in power the whole world cannot be safe place”