communist

Example Sentences

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He smuggled himself into Hong Kong as a penniless 12-year-old escaping famine in communist China.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

Your humble correspondent cannot claim to be a communist sympathizer, but shouldn’t we all spare a thought for anyone who has to sit through endless hours of Marxist speeches without so much as a cocktail?

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

Mao Zedong, the founder of communist China, regularly purged his top lieutenants, sometimes more than once, after bringing them back.

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026

And naive, especially after the Soviet Union spent a decade fighting in Afghanistan to put communist allies in charge, before withdrawing its troops in 1989 amid failure.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2026

The various communist regimes that had held power since the night Laila was born were all defeated.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini