"Stalin-esque" meaning in English

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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "2025 April 17, Linda Feldmann, “How Donald Trump is upending American culture”, in The Christian Science Monitor:",
          "text": "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.",
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  "word": "Stalin-esque"
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