Stalinist

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The former Stalinist state offers a special visa allowing U.S. citizens to live and work there, with no tax on foreign income for a year, no questions asked.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026

He’d co-written the script, focusing on the tragic love story between a writer in Stalinist Russia and his devoted paramour.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2024

Actually, it was like Stalinist Russia in many ways,” Shakespearean expert Andrew Dickson said of the rigidly controlled society in which the bard worked circa 1585 to 1613.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 6, 2022

But by the time of Mikhailov’s youth, socialist realism had become the only permitted style, and imagery of the revolution had decayed into Stalinist kitsch.

From New York Times • Oct. 28, 2022

Domestic politics, in fact, remained strongly Stalinist in orientation, and it was not until after Stalin's death in March 1953 that the first significant steps were taken to diminish Soviet control.

From Area Handbook for Romania by Bernier, Donald W.