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

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

Following a 1991 broadside by Mr. Taruskin contending that Sergei Prokofiev had composed Stalinist propaganda, one biographer complained of his “sneering antipathy.”

From New York Times • Jul. 1, 2022

The same kind of bureaucracy and the same secret police, functioning with the same supervision as in the Stalinist era in the Soviet Union, prevailed.

From Area Handbook for Albania by Elpern, Sarah Jane