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anti-communist

1919, from anti- + communist.

Usage examples of "anti-communist".

The main operation consisted of helping two heinous regimes bleed each other a little longer while getting money to anti-Communists battling totalitarian tyrants in Nicaragua.

Even the staunchest of anti-Communist organizations repudiated his tactics.

In The Best and the Brightest, David Halberstam argues that, contrary to public perception at the time, Truman and Acheson were aggressive anti-Communists.

Since the 1940s they've been quite bitter about the fact that Western support for a short time turned to Tito and the partisans and against Mikhailovich and his Chetniks and the Croatian anti-Communists, including the Ustasha, who were outright Nazis.

Famous blowhards were constantly impressing other famous blowhards with the greater calamity they could predict resulting from Reagan's support for anti-Communist guerrillas.

David Caute, The Great Fear: The Anti-Communist Purge Under Truman and Eisenhower, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1978.

Now it's a pretty mixed crowd but the anti-communist line is still de rigueur.

The Kalmucks, natives of the steppes south of the city, were ardent anti-Communists.

He described himself as a pilot, a petroleum geologist, and a professional anti-Communist.

In the American press, he was generally vilified for his troubles, and in the 1950s the State Department cancelled his passport because he had been insufficiently anti-communist.

Senator Joe McCarthy’s anti-communist witch-hunts of the early 1950s seemed to confirm that what the post-war world wanted most was freedom from social upheaval.