anticommunist
Americanadjective
noun
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“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 ● Apr. 19, 2024
The city’s third and final socialist mayor, Frank Zeidler, left office in 1960 after serving three terms that overlapped with Wisconsin Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s notorious anticommunist campaign.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 8, 2023
Jankowski made history for his support of the anticommunist Solidarity movement in Poland in the 1980s.
From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2019
The episode, he writes, is “like no other formation of mass opinion in my adult life, though it recalls a few dim childhood memories of anticommunist hysteria during the early 1950s.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 29, 2017
The news media latched onto McCarthy's speech and catapulted him to national prominence as the most aggressive anticommunist leader in the United States.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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