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The Totalitarian Matrix: the leader in control of the single party -…
The Totalitarian Matrix: the leader in control of the single party
Propaganda/Persuation
Campaigns
Posters, flags
Visual manipulation
Rallies (Nazi rallies)
Changing/Hiding Information (Censorship)
Media
Modified news, censorship of journalism
Art
Censorship of literature, cinema; restrictions of visual arts (art has to be modified to fit the ideology before it can become public)
Bulgarian example: The story of Dimitar Dimov's Tobacco
Socialist realism
No degenerate music (jazz)
Cinema: most important (according to Lenin)
Slogans
"To conquer a nation, first disarm it's citizens" -Adolf Hitler
"Print is the sharpest weapon of our party." - Joseph Stalin
The cult to leader's personality
Indoctrination in the leading ideology
Education
Youth organisations
USSR: Komsomol, Young Pioneers
Germany: League of German maidens
Italy: Balila
Institutional Control
control of religious institutions
strict control over education
Centralized power in one individual/party
mandatory Party membership in order to prosper
Political presence in every institution
Foreign Policies
Heavily utilized for propaganda purposes
Expansionism: for domestic prestige and economic gains
An external enemy necessary for domestic unification
Terror/Coercion
military
Wehrmacht/ during the war
intelligence
SS
secret police
Gestapo, NKVD, OVRA
Political trials
Concentration/Labor camps
GULAG, Poland, etc.
Purges in mass campaihns
relocation of "problematic" individuals
Economic Control and Social Benefits
Saturday "voluntary" work
Drudgery
Lack private property
Nationalization of basically everything (Soviet Union)
Free Health Care, Education, Transport
No freedom to chose where to live or where to work
Autarky
Planned economy within certain time periods (4-5 years)