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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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