The hammer and sickle symbolizes communism.

The reply was, No, Mr President, he s an anti communist.

Today, there is no longer international communism, or, for that matter, French communism.

He was given the benefit of the doubt, and his anti Communism was elevated to a surrogate of democracy.

Despite communism s ideological bankruptcy, China has not changed in this regard.

During the Cold War, dictators benefitted from American largesse as long as they were anti Communist ( our bastards ).

July 19 August 7 The Second Congress of the Communist International takes place in Saint Petersburg and Moscow.

Attitudes towards communism were always a controversial subject for the anticommunist opposition. Some rejected communism in all its forms.

Kennedy was a hardened Cold Warrior. And his anti Communism was couched in terms of American idealism.

The transition to democracy promised freedom and prosperity to all who had suffered in communism s stranglehold.

But these anti communist antibodies also worked against the universal acceptance among Poles of liberal democracy.

The first anti Communist demonstration took place on March 25, 1988 in Bratislava (the Candle demonstration in Bratislava).

For a long time, it was a losing struggle, marked especially by the spread of both communist and anti communist tyrannies.

Nixon, a vitriolic anti Communist, opened relations with Mao s China and started détente with the Soviet Union.

She had been an outspoken critic of Soviet communism, like her transatlantic friend and partner, Ronald Reagan.

At the time, Gorbachev s policies of perestroika and glasnost were seen by Soviet hardliners as a sell out of communist Russia to the capitalist West.

The Polish born Pope John Paul II crystallized the anti communist threat that Poland now posed to the Soviet Union.

In the early twentieth century, the imperial and spiritual mission became one, as Russia became the bastion of world communism.

During the Cold War, social democracy was Western Europe s egalitarian alternative to communism. Attlee, for one, was ferociously anti communist.

It was founded in 1944 as the anti communist laws in Finland were repealed, and lasted until 1990, when it merged into the newly formed Left Alliance.

Russians In Support of the Idea of International Condemnation of Communism, an open Letter from Leaders of Russian Anti Communist Organizations to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe

After all, Christian Democracy s success is also explained by its strongly anti communist stance during the Cold War and, in Italy, by the benefits of widespread corruption.

Nikita Khrushchev s 1950 s thaw allowed for his wife, Nina, to accompany him on trips abroad, presenting a homey image of communism with a human face.

Revitalization of the extreme right in Hungary and the rise of National Bolshevism in Russia, where Tolstoy is now re condemned by the Orthodox Church as a proto communist, suggest a deeper and more pervasive atavistic longing.

At the same time the Allied powers sent several expeditionary armies to support the anti Communist forces in an attempt to force Russia to rejoin the world war.

Until the 1960 s, future neo conservatives shared the Democratic Party s vehement anti communism, acceptance of the Civil Rights Movement, and support for President Franklin Roosevelt s New Deal welfare state policies.

It was an arrangement that suited everyone the Japanese became rich, the Americans had a compliant anti communist vassal state, and other Asians, even Communist China, preferred Pax Americana to a revival of Japanese military clout.

The anti Communist revolution started on November 16, 1989 in Bratislava, with a demonstration of Slovak university students for democracy, and continued with the well known similar demonstration of Czech students in Prague on November 17.

This year, confronted with a revival of nationalist sentiment, former Polish President Lech Wałęsa the leader of the anti communist Solidarity movement suggested that his country should enter into political union with Germany.

In Poland, for example, the prevailing mix of Catholicism and nationalism made society particularly resistant to communism (certainly in comparison with the egalitarian, social democratic ethos of pre war Czechoslovakia).

The Asia Justice and Rights group has conducted a series of interviews with 26 women who survived the mass killings and other forms of violence in Indonesia during the anti communist purge conducted by the military in 1965.

The American preference for making anti communist allies, however unsavory, tied Washington to Pakistan s increasingly Islamist dictatorship, while India s non aligned democracy drifted toward the secular Soviet embrace.

The greatest danger is that the Jasmine Revolution could go the way of Romania s anti communist uprising of 20 years ago, with the old regime s underlings expelling their bosses in order to stay in power.

The reinternment, organized by Hungary s anti communist opposition on the 31st anniversary of his execution, drew more than 100,000 attendees, heralding the beginning of the end of the country s sclerotic regime.

Citizenship tests are an integral part of this program and, in the eyes of critics, they resemble loyalty oaths and other intolerant measures traditionally associated with the anti communist witch hunts of McCarthyism in 1950 s America.

What sold best was an image of oppressive big government, reflected in a tax system that was increasingly burdensome to ordinary people, combined with anti communist nationalism and barely veiled racism.

In another memo, Bundy argued that neutrality would be viewed by all anti communist Vietnamese as a betrayal, thus angering a US domestic constituency powerful enough to lose us an election.

In one of the drafts of this letter, Marx reveals his growing passion for anthropology, motivated by his belief that future communism would be a return on a higher level to the communism of our prehistoric past.

For decades, Cuban and Soviet support for guerrilla movements and backing by the United States for Latin America s anticommunist military regimes was rarely part of regional explanations for the insurgent violence and state terrorism that plagued the continent even after the Cold War s end.

An estimated half a million people were killed during the anti communist hysteria and even more Indonesians suffered torture, enforced disappearances, rape, sexual slavery, and other crimes of sexual violence, slavery, arbitrary arrest, and detention, forced displacement, and forced labor after 1965.

From the late 1940 s to the late 1980 s, the US played along with, and sometimes actively backed, anti Communist authoritarian rulers, who grabbed and consolidated their powers through violent coups and the suppression of dissent.

Of course, Muslim democracy will not be brought about by intellectuals alone. After all, Christian Democracy s success is also explained by its strongly anti communist stance during the Cold War and, in Italy, by the benefits of widespread corruption.

One way to think about the six decades that have elapsed since the adoption of the Universal Declaration is as a struggle to implement its promises. For a long time, it was a losing struggle, marked especially by the spread of both communist and anti communist tyrannies.

Romania is not alone, of course, in reliving this dark comedy. Revitalization of the extreme right in Hungary and the rise of National Bolshevism in Russia, where Tolstoy is now re condemned by the Orthodox Church as a proto communist, suggest a deeper and more pervasive atavistic longing.

PARIS A surprising phenomenon is increasingly apparent in Western Europe far right parties are moving away from their traditional anti communist and anti Russia ideologies, with many expressing admiration and even outright support for Russian President Vladimir Putin s regime.