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communist

[kom-yuh-nist] / ˈkɒm jə nɪst /


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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

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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