Meanings
alternative Stalin-esque
- not comparableCharacteristic of Joseph Stalin (1878–1953), leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953.
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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.)
2022 October 25, Willy Staley, “The Try Guys and the Prison of Online Fame”, in The New York Times Magazine
Origin
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Stalinesque. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Stalinesque
“Stalinesque.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Stalinesque. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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