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The Soviet machinery of state bureaucratic administration, or a similar communistic structure.
* 2010 , (Christopher Hitchens), Hitch-22 , Atlantic 2011, p. 184:
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- The second thing to absorb was that, behind all the spontaneity and eroticism and generalized “festival of the oppressed” merrymaking, a grim-faced Communist apparat was making preparations for an end to the revels and a serious seizure of the state.
