极权主义思维的残留痕迹依然可以在对亚当·米利尼克或瓦茨拉夫·哈维尔等前持不同政见者的敌意上看到，他们两人都主张新的民主政府不应该像极权主义国家那样制造怨恨或寻求报复，而是应该努力使整个国家一致投入到建设真正的文明社会中来。
Residual traces of totalitarian thinking can also be found in the hostility to former dissidents like Adam Michnik or Václav Havel, both of whom argued that the new democracies should not exploit resentments or seek revenge, as the totalitarian state did, but instead build a new national consensus to structure and empower a genuine civil society.