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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 politicians, activists and thinkers who built that movement in the wake of World War II and the anti-communist fervor that swept the country spent many decades educating their followers in the ideology and dogma of conservative thought.

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“The primary reason the Eastern Front has not yet been revealed as the decisive arena of the war,” the author continues, “has to do with politics—specifically the anti-Communist prejudice that pervades Western scholarship.”

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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