Meanings
- not comparableStalinist
Murphy said that NEA critics want funding for "pleasant, acceptable" art that is not political or ideological and does not advocate social change. "That's the prescription of Stalinistic Russia or Nazi Germany," he said. "That's not what this nation is all about."
1990 August 31, John Zeh, quoting Patrick Murphy, “NEA Session Disrupted”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 7, page 6
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