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communism

[kom-yuh-niz-uhm] / ˈkɒm yəˌnɪz əm /


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He shifted his rhetoric, appealing to nationalist and religious sentiments, long suppressed under communism.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026

Former conservative commentator Steve Hilton said his family had a small farm in Hungary, which they fled because of communism.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

The author emphasizes that by the 1950s, approximately 90% of Cuba’s mines were owned by U.S. companies, demonstrating a longstanding pattern of American economic domination that predated the rise of Fidel Castro and communism.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2026

“There was a time,” he says, “when communism was plausible, with its industrialization, with factories, with machines.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026

The United States embraced democracy, while the Soviet Union was ruled by communism.

From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson




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