estalinista
Stalinist
adjective es-tah-lee-NEES-tah Rare
Origin: From Stalin + -ista
Usage Note
Estalinista describes policies, regimes, or people associated with Joseph Stalin's form of totalitarian communism. In Spanish it is both an adjective (régimen estalinista) and a noun (un estalinista) and is invariable for gender: la dirigente estalinista. The spelling uses E- as Spanish does not use initial 'St-' clusters.
Examples
"Criticaron el modelo estalinista de gobierno."
Natural Translation
They criticised the Stalinist model of government.
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