counterrevolutionary

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Dr. Jiang was labeled a counterrevolutionary because of his father’s banking ties and his family tree.

From Washington Post

More than 350 pictures, including many by the leading names of the Ukrainian avant-garde, were immured in the vaults of what is now the National Art Museum in Kyiv, owing to their “counterrevolutionary formalist methods.”

From New York Times

For six of those years, he was persecuted as a counterrevolutionary.

From New York Times

The charges were similarly absurd, that he had been a member of a counterrevolutionary organization and sabotaged the collective farm’s work.

From Washington Post

After the armed suppression of protests in 1989, he stoutly defended people accused of fomenting “counterrevolutionary turmoil.”

From New York Times