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also inefficient and corrupt. [...] Furthermore, like other authoritarian regimes, the GMD sought to control people's mind." (Fung 2000, p. 85) "The response
civilians were killed by Soviet forces and their proxies- the four Communist regimes in Kabul, and the East Germans, Bulgarians, Czechs, Cubans, Palestinians
the only one of its kind in the world, and is reminiscent of distasteful regimes from the past, such as the apartheid regime in South Africa." B'Tselem