de-stalinization

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de-stalinization - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  de-Stalinization
      n 1: social process of neutralizing the influence of Joseph
           Stalin by revising his policies and removing monuments
           dedicated to him and renaming places named in his honor;
           "his statue was demolished as part of destalinization"
           [syn: destalinization, de-Stalinization,
           destalinisation, de-Stalinisation]