communist
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This slow-rolling crisis has hit so hard that when a foreign visitor recently offered $100 for a photograph of his communist hero, Suarez felt he had little choice.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
After the communist government fell in 1991, his family was handed ownership of its chunk of peninsula farmland, which had since gone fallow.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
But the decree represents a significant loosening of decades-old communist doctrine.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
In 1942, when one of the leaders of the House Un-American Activities Committee baselessly accused the famous educator and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune of being a communist, Smith sprang into action.
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026
Closing the border between East and West Berlin was not the idea of the KGB, the Soviet army, or anyone in the Kremlin: It was the brainchild of Walter Ulbricht, East Germany's hard-line communist leader.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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But the DSA’s big tent also accommodates dedicated Marxists and communists, including several of its 27-member National Political Committee.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
Brown and black coal mining employed about 100,000 people in the 1980s, when the former Czechoslovakia was ruled by Moscow-steered communists promoting heavy industry.
From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026
The most notorious of these, COINTELPRO, a counterintelligence program targeting communists that ran from 1956 until 1971, saw the FBI target a variety of political organizations.
From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2025
Lai was born in Guangzhou, a city in southern China, to a wealthy family that lost everything when the communists took power in 1949.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2025
In October 1949, communists seized power in China, the world’s most populous country.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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