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How Totalitarianism Rhymes Throughout History: Czechoslovakia, China, & Venezuela<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cIt can\u2019t happen here\u201d<\/a>\u00a0is a political cliche in the United States. Regardless of your personal viewpoint, there is a vast swath of the American population who simply do not believe in the possibility of any kind of totalitarianism in the United States.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s worth noting that throughout history, in virtually every place that totalitarian regimes have arisen, the residents of these countries felt the same way. Russia was seen as too traditional and backward, the power of the Czar too entrenched to be defeated. Germany had been viewed throughout most of the modern period as the home of\u00a0Goethe<\/a>,\u00a0Schiller<\/a>, and\u00a0Mozart<\/a>, a place where the local Jewish population had largely assimilated.<\/p>\n

Because totalitarianism emerges differently throughout history in different countries, it\u2019s crucial to take a broader view of how totalitarian regimes arise. For example, when we\u2019re discussing the rise of communism or the rise of fascism, we see different trends in Russia than we do in China, different trends in Italy than we do in Germany. When we examine multiple, somewhat lesser known examples of the rise of socialism throughout the world, we paint a picture of the different ways in which socialism originated and its possible resurgence.<\/p>\n

This case study of terror analyses three examples of totalitarianism throughout history. In Czechoslovakia, the Communist Party was able to establish the\u00a0Czechoslovak Socialist Republic<\/a>\u00a0by leveraging little more than a strong showing – but not a victory – in the parliamentary elections. During the\u00a0Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution<\/a>\u00a0of Communist China in the 1960s,\u00a0Chairman Mao<\/a>\u00a0came out of relative isolation to radically remake an already communist country. Lastly, we will look right in America\u2019s backyard at the rise of\u00a0Hugo Chavez in Venezuela<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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More than perhaps anywhere else, the rise of totalitarianism throughout the world is an excellent example of the quote often attributed to Mark Twain,\u00a0\u201chistory doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0If you are looking for a mechanical repeat of the past, you are looking in the wrong place. Our point is not to show you that the exact same things are currently happening here in the United States, but to highlight similarities.<\/p>\n

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