Definition of "anticommunist" []

• Opposed to the tenets of communism. (adjective)
• One who is opposed to the tenets of communism. (noun)

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• "Efforts to give financial support to groups creating such software recall anticommunist programs during the Cold War, when the United States government backed broadcasters like Radio Free Europe, which provided news and information to countries where a free press was banned."
• "An historical example of this is how the United States 'support for "anticommunist" dictatorships in Latin America during the Cold War continues to haunt our relations with that continents' people and governments today."
• "I had come of age in a generation of Democrats who were reliably anticommunist—Jack Kennedy, Scoop Jackson, Hubert."