How to Use communism in a Sentence

communism

noun
  • Quashing such, as the letter-writer demands, is the position of fascism (on the right) and communism (on the left).
    Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 4 July 2024
  • The end of communism in 1989 opened the door to restitution claims, most of which would be coming from Poles.
    BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2021
  • Giving those victims of communism a home in the U.S. became a national crusade.
    Arthur Herman, WSJ, 24 Aug. 2021
  • At a friend’s birthday party in Dublin, Eileen asks what everyone is talking about, and the answer is—funnily enough—communism.
    Jennifer Wilson, The New Republic, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Volunteers rushed into Eastern Europe after the fall of communism.
    Nick Roll, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Sep. 2021
  • There is even a communism through line for those who believe the pandemic itself was a plot by the Chinese government to weaken the United States.
    Nicole Hemmer, CNN, 28 Sep. 2021
  • The country was a model of democratic transition for a quarter-century after the fall of communism in 1989.
    Vanessa Gera, ajc, 30 Aug. 2021
  • The Democrats are not exempt from this as many on the far left have never studied and have little knowledge of the problems of communism and other extreme socialist governments and societies.
    Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Sep. 2021
  • In 1954, fueled by fears about the alleged spread of communism, the CIA orchestrated a coup in Guatemala.
    Tiana Reid, Vulture, 31 Aug. 2021
  • The monarchy faced threats from communism on the left and fascism on the right.
    Judy Berman, Time, 30 July 2021
  • Trump is not your last stand against the deep state against communism.
    Anchorage Daily News, 12 Mar. 2021
  • What destabilizes that wing of the party is the Cold War and the threat of communism.
    How To Save A Country, The New Republic, 4 May 2023
  • East Germans were freed from the dull yoke of communism.
    The Economist, 3 Oct. 2020
  • Puhoi, like all villages in Moldova, has changed a lot since the fall of communism in 1991.
    Madeline Roache / Puhoi, Time, 29 Aug. 2019
  • The past three decades have proved to be a mere false start for Russia because the problems of communism are still with us.
    Robert D. Kaplan, WSJ, 8 June 2022
  • My father was brought up with this bright idea of communism.
    Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Nov. 2017
  • Later, in the Cold War, the country waged a global fight against communism.
    Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 8 Dec. 2021
  • Tens of thousands took to the streets across the country last year to protest the change, in perhaps the biggest show of public anger since the fall of communism.
    NBC News, 16 Sep. 2021
  • After the war, Hoover’s main obsession was the threat of communism.
    Jack Goldsmith, The Atlantic, 22 Nov. 2022
  • The crimes of capitalism and communism alike are blamed on Jews.
    Andrew Doran, WSJ, 3 Feb. 2022
  • The color red is a rallying cry to the communism that Joe Biden is spreading throughout the U.S.
    Sarah Hutto, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2022
  • The West was the free world, standing for democracy, and opposed to communism.
    Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 24 Mar. 2022
  • His efforts to revitalize the Soviet Union led to the collapse of communism there and the end of the Cold War.
    Bernard McGhee, al, 31 Dec. 2022
  • Hundreds of thousands have emigrated since the end of communism in the 1990s and the chaos that ensued.
    Nick Squires, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The collapse of the Soviet Union and decline of communism in the early ’90s shook the political world of the right.
    Kim Phillips-Fein, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2022
  • There may be no going back without the collapse of communism on the mainland.
    Doug Bandow, National Review, 10 Feb. 2024
  • The waves of pagan barbarians, heresies, communism, and all the false gods.
    Andrew Doran, National Review, 3 Mar. 2022
  • While a portion of those who came to Spain were aligned with Soviet communism, most were not.
    BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2021
  • How does a man go from hating communism, to having to deal, to having to sit and be face-to-face with a communist?
    Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 25 Jan. 2018
  • Putin and Lam inked several agreements to bolster economic cooperation between the two countries, whose relationship traces back decades, with the Soviet Union backing communism in the country in the 1950s.
    Britt Clennett, ABC News, 20 June 2024

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