Repression is an innate characteristic of totalitarian regimes. The regime is doomed when it ceases to suppress. In the process of destroying culture and impose pretotalitarian new ideas, the system requires that obedience is absolute. For this reason, in its first phase is excessively brutal repression. His goal is not to punish but to terrorize. Over time, the repression must take other forms. Jean Kirkpatrick argues that:
"The main task is to turn totalitarian ideology in culture ... to the extent that new beliefs are accepted, establishing new habits, should decline the need for enforcement through aggressive programs 'changes in the way of thinking' and punishment of dissidents. " 1
Independent political slant of his followers, the totalitarian pattern is repeated in all time. One of the most recent is the totalitarianism of the Taliban. When the cult began to take over Afghanistan after the Afghans had defeated the invading Soviet army, the aim of Mullah Omar, Taliban leader, has been summarized in the direction of a Taliban official:
"You people must become so notorious for their atrocities to come to an area where people shake in their sandals. Anyone can do beatings and starve or thirst. I want his unit to find new ways of torture so terrible that the screams frighten even crows in their nests, and even if someone survives can never again have a night's sleep. " 2
To this end the Taliban banned: to laugh in public, listening to music, watching TV or video, play cards or chess and fly a kite. Was paid to the death to have a book that was not Islamic. Banned take photographs. Being arrested who had a bird cage and killed the bird. Women could not appear on the balconies of their houses and windows had to be painted so that they could not be seen from outside, etc..
The objective of the Taliban is the same as that of communist totalitarianism: that a person with doubts, maverick or maverick "can never again have a night's sleep."
communist repression is not as backward as the Taliban, but equally perverse. Millions of people have been victims. On April 11, 2003 three young Cubans were shot trying to flee Cuba by stealing a boat. The punishment was not related to the offense. In fact, the scheme was not interested in correcting the conduct of the accused, but to make a chilling effect on the population. Wanted to take the dream to flee from Cuba who think doing the same thing or something.
In one of his books, Alexander Solzhenitsyn described how the arrest quotas were sent by telegram from Moscow to all peoples of the USSR. In such cases, first arresting people and then accusing them of a social crime. The important thing was to sow terror "revolutionary."
In a village where they had made arrests, but there was to fill the quota, the Commissioner recalled that in the vicinity had a gypsy camp, and they fulfilled the requirement.
Cambodian Communists also gave a demonstration of repression practiced by communist tyranny in their early or when they are in danger. In the four years he ruled Cambodia from April 1975 to October 1979, killed two million people.
One of the two biggest bloody communism was Stalin attributed to him 23 million dead among those killed in the purges and famine victims in Ukraine. Mao was the most cruel of all, responsible for the deaths of more than 49 million people.
1) "Dictatorship and Double Standards" Simon and Schuster, p to pages 114 to 115
2) "The Sewing Machines of Herat" Christina Lamb, Perennial, p to Page 9
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