During Stalin's repressive era, on the other hand, Jewish socialist leaders imprisoned in Soviet camps, like Victor Alter and Henryk Erlich, could not escape.

But some former dissidents and political prisoners consider any revival of Zeman, a symbol of the repressive Communist era, unimaginable and offensive.

This occurred during the era of President Luis Echeverría, an extremely repressive era in Mexican history.

A growing number of citizens are concerned that the Mexican military is "becoming too powerful in the face of state weakness - a chilling reminder of a more repressive era."

On February 25, 1956, at the 20th Party Congress, he delivered the "Secret Speech," denouncing Stalin's purges and ushering in a less repressive era in the Soviet Union.

Although Mr. Botha began to ease some of apartheid's worse restrictions toward the end of his rule, he also presided over the country's most brutally repressive era.

The tale centers on the life of a minor civil servant during the repressive era of Nicholas I. Following the format of a diary, the story shows the descent of the protagonist, Poprishchin, into insanity.

The film is a study of memory, the repressive Communist era, and reconciliation.

During the especially repressive era of the Cultural Revolution in the 1960's, political criticism was carried out by allegory.

A vestige of a repressive era, she embarks upon a tentative and difficult love affair with an idealistic youth.