Volume 40, Number 13 · July 15, 1993
The Dictatorship Returns
By Jeri Laber
These chilling words are familiar. They could have been said in Moscow or Prague during the early 1980s, when Communist dictators tolerated no dissent. But I heard them in May 1993 from a journalist in the newly independent state of Turkmenistan,[1] formerly the Soviet republic of Turkmenia, where communism is a thing of the past, but its practices continue.
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