communist
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He went from fighting a communist insurgency in Southeast Asia to serving in a department called the Unit, which wages war using supernatural technology—and supernatural people.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Growing up with diplomat parents, Martens lived in communist countries such as Romania and Burma, now also called Myanmar.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026
The self-proclaimed revolutionary communist has since sent messages to supporters describing himself as a "prisoner of war".
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
Cibelli said the vibrant software industry in Poland in part comes from lower costs, but also from the country’s long-term affection for Western culture, which began during its communist period that ended in 1989.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
I didn’t know until then that we were part of an exodus of thousands of children sent here by parents who don’t want us growing up in communist Cuba.
From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar
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
The most notorious of these, COINTELPRO, a counterintelligence program targeting communists that ran from 1956 until 1971, saw the FBI target a variety of political organizations.
From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2025
Deftly unraveling the tangled politics of the moment, Mr. Wallace vividly shows La Guardia juggling factions of fusionist Republicans, communists, interventionists, isolationists, Tammany pols and a rat’s nest of the city’s fierce ethnic rivalries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025
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
Oliver and I had encountered a recurring difficulty in our travels: one African leader after another had ques-tioned us about our relations with white and Indian communists, sometimes suggesting that they controlled the ANC.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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