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noncommunist

British  
/ ˌnɒnˈkɒmjʊnɪst /

adjective

  1. relating to a government or state that does not practise communism

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noun

  1. a person who does not practise communism

    re-enter politics as a noncommunist

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The party’s last pretense at legitimacy crumbled; Poland’s first noncommunist government since World War II came to power.

From Slate • May 30, 2014

By the end of the decade, change came again in Poland with the election of the first noncommunist party.

From Time • May 13, 2011

By treadmill policies, Dulles meant containment: the Truman administration’s policy of building up America’s noncommunist allies, both economically and militarily, so they could withstand Soviet subversion.

From Newsweek • Feb. 27, 2011

Fighting a populist campaign against his own former adviser, he was elected Poland's first noncommunist President, a post he held until 1995.

From Time Magazine Archive

First, neighboring Hungary opened its border with noncommunist Austria—creating the first open border along the Iron Curtain since the start of the Cold War.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau