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

Prokofiev spent years in Paris and in the U.S. as a modernist, but ultimately Mother Russia was too strong of a pull, and he returned despite the artistic restrictions of Stalinist Russia.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 10, 2025

Some see it as a throwback to the Stalinist era, when abortion was outlawed in 1936, and women ending unwanted pregnancies often turned to illegal and unsafe procedures.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 26, 2023

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

Internally, the ruling elite, headed by Enver Hoxha, maintained a rigid regime of the Stalinist type.

From Area Handbook for Albania by Elpern, Sarah Jane