communists

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In Germany, a democratic revolution toppled the monarchy in 1918, bringing into existence the fragile Weimar Republic, which communists in Moscow hoped would soon succumb to a communist revolution.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 25, 2026

Thousands of families are still hoping to reclaim ancestral land that was taken by the communists after World War II, with some claiming ownership over land allocated to the project.

From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026

During the McCarthy era, overreaching laws, surveillance, and public and private sector reprisals ostensibly targeted alleged communists.

From Salon • May 28, 2026

But in West Bengal and Tripura - once the great bastions of Left power - the communists have been reduced to a shadow of their former self.

From BBC • May 26, 2026

In fact, Babi thought that the one thing the communists had done right—or at least intended to—ironically, was in the field of education, the vocation from which they had fired him.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini