Which of the following statements best characterizes the totalitarian state in the 1930s?

a. It was democratic and championed individualism and democratic freedoms.

b. It was an all-compassing, authoritarian dictatorship that subordinated individual needs, and employed police power and mass propaganda to achieve total control.

c. It limited its authoritarian dictates to the political and economic aspects of the state's affairs, in an effort to have freer social and cultural choices serve as means of placating the masses.

d. It wanted the masses to keep quiet and not obstruct state policy.