Stalinesque

English

Etymology

From Stalin +‎ -esque.

Adjective

Stalinesque (not comparable)

1. Characteristic of Joseph Stalin (1878–1953), leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953.
   • 2022 October 25, Willy Staley, “The Try Guys and the Prison of Online Fame”, in The New York Times Magazine‎^[1]:

     A group of friends becomes a cast of characters, strip-mines lives and relationships for content and, in the process, turns into a corporation, with payroll to process and liabilities to consider. (It’s entirely possible that the Stalinesque removal of Fulmer from certain videos is rooted in legal concerns, not moral ones.)