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communist

[kom-yuh-nist] / ˈkɒm jə nɪst /


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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

Von Hagens was born on January 10, 1945, in what was Nazi-occupied Poland and grew up in communist East Germany.

From Barron's Jul. 27, 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

In more recent cases, State Department intelligence analyst Walter Kendall Myers and former US ambassador to Bolivia Victor Manuel Rocha pled guilty in separate cases to spying for the communist country.

From Barron's Jul. 20, 2026

That same month, Erich Honecker, the iron-fisted East German leader, was removed by the communist leadership.

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

COINTELPRO, or the Counter Intelligence Program, targeted all the usual suspects — communists, socialists, civil rights organizations and yes, the left, with a particular focus on protest organizers.

From Salon Mar. 12, 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

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

“These communists, what is it that they believe?”

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini




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