“That is a totalitarian idea and only something that a far-right party would say,” he told reporters Thursday.

In authoritarian or totalitarian regimes, history and memory belong to the powerful.

When he writes, "Is this Britain or the Soviet Union?" he doesn't really mean that Britain is a totalitarian Communist state but also, he sort of does.

Mohammad Rasoulof: It’s very difficult because all of my films, all of my stories relate to living in a totalitarian regime.

The front organization functions both ways: as the facade of the totalitarian movement to the nontotalitarian world, and as the facade of this world to the inner hierarchy of the movement.