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Totalitarianism  refers to the type of government that attempts to assert total control over the lives of its citizens.

Read the following quote and summarize in your own words:

“True goal of totalitarian propaganda is not persuasion, but organization of the polity. ... What convinces masses are not facts, and not even invented facts, but only the consistency of the system of which they are presumably part.” ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

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The quote by Hannah Arendt states that the main aim of totalitarian propaganda is not to convince people through facts or even false information, but to organize the society and make people believe they are a part of a consistent system.

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