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Japanese officers in Korea. (Credit: Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

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Korea's labor and land were taken over by Japan during the occupation. Japanese families settled in Korea with land they were given. They chopped down trees by the millions and planted non-native plants, changing a familiar landscape into something many Koreans couldn't recognize.

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A Nationalist officer guarding women prisoners said to be “comfort girls” used by the Communists, 1948.

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The Japanese military created a system where they forced young women to be sexual slaves for soldiers, who would then use them as a form of "entertainment." These women were often sexually assaulted by their captors and sometimes even killed.

It is estimated that up to 200,000 women were used in this way.

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The Shrine of One Thousand Steps, the Shinto shrine which was built in 1925 from forced Korean donations, still remains but is used as a city park. (Credit: Bet

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Through language, religion, and education, the occupation government also attempted to assimilate Koreans. The shrines that were designed for Japanese families became places of forced worship. Koreans were forced to worship Japan's imperial gods by the colonial government.

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Nazis placing a sign on the storefront window of a Jewish business that reads “Germans! Defend Yourselves! Don’t buy from Jews!” By Bild Bundesarchiv, CC BY-SA 

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The human cost of totalitarian regimes was fascism in Nazi Germany. As a result, Jews were terrorized and removed, first from legally participating in German society, then physically from it. Jews were considered a threat to the nation by German fascists.

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Concentration camps were a human cost of totalitarian regimes in Nazi Germany. The Nazis used these camps to incarcerate millions of people, including the Jews, the Romani people, and other groups that were deemed “undesirable” by the state.

The Nazis established concentration camps as a way to control the population and strip them of their political voice. They did so by forcing them into labor camps where they worked without pay or any sort of legal rights.

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The Holocaust was also a result of the persecution of other minority groups under Nazi rule. The Nazi Party instituted policies that led to the deaths of millions of Roma Gypsies and homosexuals. It is estimated that over 200,000 gay men were executed during World War 2 by German forces operating in concentration camps.

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During the Soviet era, the practice of collectivization harmed ancient traditions of Russian peasants. The Soviet Union's agricultural sector underwent significant reforms as a result of collectivization. However, it led to the development of the Soviet economy by accelerating industrialization.

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Children collect frozen potatoes in a collective farm's field during the Ukrainian famine. (Credit: Sovfoto/UIG/Getty Images)

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The Ukrainian famine was a Human Cost of Totalitarian Regimes in Soviet Russia. It was a political and economic event that happened because of the policies implemented by Joseph Stalin, who was the leader of the Soviet Union.

The famine began when Stalin decided to collectivize farming, which meant that all farms were owned by the government. This meant that farmers could not sell their crops at market prices and had to give them away at low prices or even for free if they wanted to survive. This caused starvation among many rural areas and led to thousands of deaths.

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The initial plan for the Gulag was to build a system where people could be punished for various crimes against the state, but it quickly became much more than that. People who were imprisoned in the Gulag camps were forced to work long hours in harsh conditions and received little or no food or water. Many died from disease and malnutrition, while others committed suicide by hanging themselves with their bed sheets or jumping out of windows.