anticommunism
- a word derived from communism.
Example Sentences
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In “World Enemy No. 1,” the author charts the development of Nazi anticommunism, from its origins immediately after World War I, and the way the movement systematically targeted Jews as supposed agents of international Bolshevism.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025
But I think they were able to justify it under the aegis of anticommunism.
From Salon • Apr. 20, 2024
Many figures of the old left took other paths, toward neoconservatism and staunch anticommunism or toward bitterness and despair, but he emerged as a liberal optimist.
From Washington Post • May 10, 2019
Along with his virulent anticommunism, Nixon’s attention to the politics of image marked him as a California product.
From Salon • Nov. 28, 2015
Ernest was soon to become entwined in the increasingly supercharged atmosphere of suspicion and accusation that anticommunism brought to the Berkeley campus.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
