A loaded word is a word that not only informs but also caries some emotion with it, such as condemning, exciting, praising. In the statement above the loaded word is "crushing" - it makes a qualitative statement about the defeat: it was a very definite defeat.
It was a transformation of human life circumstances
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It might be speech, religion, press, assembly, and the right to petition the government.