Even though we still have a few classical totalitarian governments in our world, which try to control every aspect of people’s lives, such as in North Korea, they are much rarer now. With a more literate population that knows how people in other countries live, this requires a form of oppression that is too brutal to be practicable, so most dictatorships have given their citizens more freedom in their everyday lives in the last few decades. China is still a dictatorship that treats its critics harshly, but there is no comparison to Mao’s China, where people belonged to a government work unit
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