homo sovieticus

Etymology
First appears c. 1918 in the publication Collected Reprints by Asa Crawford Chandler, but popularized by the philosopher Alexander Zinoviev in the early 1980s; from, a of colloquial  modelled on taxonomic names like.

Pronunciation

 * Latin:

Noun

 * 1)  A person molded by having lived in the Soviet Union or Eastern Bloc, variously characterized as passively conformist, apathetic, rootless, etc.

Translations

 * Estonian: Nõukogude inimene
 * Finnish: homo sovieticus,
 * German: Sowjetmensch
 * Russian: сове́тский челове́к,
 * Swedish: homo sovieticus