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Stalin-esque
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Adjective
en Stalinesque.
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2025/0417/trump-culture-kennedy-center-smithsonian How Donald Trump is upending American culture Linda Feldmann 2025-04-17 But amid all the disruption and norm-breaking, it’s Mr. Trump’s apparently keen interest in shaping American culture that may be most intriguing. To critics, it’s nothing less than a sign of his authoritarian bent – reminiscent of the Stalin-esque playbook that made government diktats over artistic expression a feature of the old Soviet Union. https://web.archive.org/web/20260921075500/https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2025/0417/trump-culture-kennedy-center-smithsonian 21 September 2026