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n. - A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.).

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  • No. The secret of Stalinism is that both insulting the leader, and insulting his enemies is equally dangerous.
  • Stalinism is the rule of the Steel Plant Factory Union Boss.
  • Stalinism, which is a personalization of the Soviet regime during one era, and then to compare it with Nazism, which was the ideology of
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