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subversives

noun as in fifth column

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It compiled a database of “subversives” across the country that included leaders of farming cooperativess and labor, student and indigenous activists, to provide ever-growing lists for the death squads.

From Salon

In Chile’s neighbor, Argentina, a military junta rose to power in 1976 vowing to combat leftist “subversives.”

Hoodwinked citizens refused to believe Germany had been "genuinely" defeated, choosing to believe instead that political leaders had fallen for the tricks of the Allies and domestic subversives, the most insidious such trick being Versailles.

From Salon

Russia had emerged as America’s rival in the nuclear arms race and Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected to the White House on a Republican platform promising to remove “subversives” who’d ostensibly infiltrated the federal government.

In a sign of the band's influence, police searching for political subversives have even forced patrons at a bar in Moscow to sing a Lyube song, as proof that they support the government.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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