anticommunist

[an-tahy-kahm-yuhn-ist, an-tee-]

adjective

1. opposed to communism, especially in a vocal or public way.

noun

1. a person who is opposed to communism, especially in a vocal or public way.

Example Sentences

While scholars in recent years have enriched our understanding of the political and social dynamics that underlaid what was in many ways a Vietnamese civil war, the U.S. military invasion that accompanied the internecine fighting between communist-led revolutionaries seeking to reunify a divided Vietnam and the anticommunist Vietnamese who opposed them turned what might have been a mostly Vietnamese conflict into one of major global significance.

From Slate

As the film depicts with garish flair, the pugilistic, Bronx-born attorney — who first came to prominence prosecuting Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for espionage, then served as chief counsel to Sen. Joseph McCarthy during his anticommunist witch hunt — took Trump under his wing in the 1970s, handing the ambitious real-estate developer’s son a fiendish playbook for success.

From Los Angeles Times

Tim’s passionate anticommunist politics have morphed into antiwar politics.

From Los Angeles Times

It was billed as the first movie about the Vietnam War from a Vietnamese perspective, but anticommunist protesters were incensed that she had aided Viet Cong soldiers.

From Los Angeles Times

“This could reopen a lot of deep wounds within our anticommunist community,” says Quan Nguyen, whose father was an army physician.

From Los Angeles Times