communist
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This slow-rolling crisis has hit so hard that when a foreign visitor recently offered $100 for a photograph of his communist hero, Suarez felt he had little choice.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
After the communist government fell in 1991, his family was handed ownership of its chunk of peninsula farmland, which had since gone fallow.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
But Rangzen’s fellow exiled Tibetans, who have struggled to win international attention for their opposition to Chinese communist rule, greeted his passing with anguish -- and respect.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
In 1942, when one of the leaders of the House Un-American Activities Committee baselessly accused the famous educator and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune of being a communist, Smith sprang into action.
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026
From this modest, cramped perch, Harvey conjured up big plans for the CIA's secret war against the communist enemy.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
Wax figures of scrappy, earnest young communists gesticulate during a 1921 meeting frozen in time, debating how best to bring Marxism to China.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 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
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
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
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
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