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n. - A believer in 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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  • He's now banned all conservative viewpoints in what even he calls a Stalinist purge:
  • Solzhenitsyn singles out extended sleep deprivation as one of the worst of the tortures used in Stalinist prisons.
  • It is not the way of the British Parliament to indulge itself in Stalinist Politburo self-congratulation of this sort.
  • The term Stalinist is frequently misused.
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