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anti-Communist

noun

  1. a person who is opposed to Communism

    a staunch anti-Communist

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


adjective

  1. opposed to Communism

    a big anti-Communist demonstration

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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The original Committee for the First Amendment included actors such as Henry Fonda, Lucille Ball, Judy Garland, Humphrey Bogart, Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra, who traveled to Washington in 1947 to oppose anti-Communist hearings targeting the film industry.

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Reagan’s early-’80s U.N. speeches were heavy on anti-Communist rhetoric about the importance of free markets and individual rights, and often cited the perceived crimes of Marxist-Leninist regimes.

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He would be swept up in UC’s capitulation to the 1950s red scare in California, which culminated in the mandate that all faculty sign an anti-communist loyalty oath.

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“Only Nixon could go to China,” because Richard Nixon had spent decades in Congress making his name as a rabid anti-communist crusader.

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The U.S. became involved militarily in Vietnam in the 1950s as part of the growing anti-communist crusade during the Cold War.

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