Sentence:  The unforgiving <WSD>dogma</WSD> of Stalinism is that what the party leader, however cruel and incompetent, decrees, however absurd, must be accepted as law. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  An authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion, especially one considered to be absolutely true and indisputable, regardless of evidence or without evidence to support it.