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communist

[kom-yuh-nist] / ˈkɒm yə nɪst /


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He had a Clark Gable pencil mustache, raced sailboats, cavorted with the late communist leader Fidel Castro in Cuba, and at one point married Academy Award-winning actress and activist Jane Fonda.

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026

From early on, Orbán proved skilled at gauging the country’s political temperature as it emerged from communist rule.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026

The KMT was based in China until 1949 when Chiang Kai-shek and his nationalist KMT troops fled to Taiwan to set up a rival government after losing a civil war to the communist forces.

From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026

Compared to China, however, the communist party's central committee plays a stronger role in checking the power of its secretary general, Carl Thayer, Emeritus Professor at the University of New South Wales, told the BBC.

From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026

But in reality, an invisible line ran down the middle of Berlin, separating the communist East from the capitalist West.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau




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