How to Use communism in a Sentence

communism

noun
  • Decades ago, his father’s family saw what was coming in their homeland - communism and Russians.
    Marc Bona, cleveland, 12 Apr. 2021
  • Since the fall of communism, Moldova has lost about a third of its population from mass emigration and low birthrates.
    Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2021
  • The name was shortened to the Reds but remained unattached with communism – or quality baseball -- for most of the next six decades.
    Chris Lamb, USA TODAY, 7 Apr. 2021
  • The patriotic line was about stopping communism; the reality was defense of a racist state.
    Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2021
  • In a country where people for decades under communism found ways to trick the system to get by, some are again looking for ways to circumvent the rules to maintain income.
    Star Tribune, 27 Mar. 2021
  • Mai's parents immigrated to the U.S. from Vietnam and escaped communism to come to a safer place.
    David Oliver, USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2021
  • Cold War anxieties over the spread of communism in Asia have never been far from the American consciousness.
    Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2021
  • The guilt of complicity, yes—many of us now lived in the country that had enabled the regime’s practices, as part of its touted war against communism—but more important, the guilt of survival.
    Daniel Loedel, The Atlantic, 17 Jan. 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 end of communism in 1989 opened the door to restitution claims, most of which would be coming from Poles.
    BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • As the grandson of Holocaust survivors and the son of refugees from communism, and a former Navy Intelligence officer, the fight to protect our democracy is personal to me.
    Laura Gersony, The Arizona Republic, 9 July 2024

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