8 sentences with “communists”

They were often tacitly aided by the police, who rounded up communists but ignored infractions of fascist law as they targeted communists.

As the social and political situation approached anarchy, a group of Russian communists steeped in the tradition of radical terrorism prepared to act: the Bolsheviks.

Instead, the initial task of the Nazi murder squads was the elimination of the Polish "ruling class", which came to mean intellectuals, politicians, communists and Catholic priests.

He stated, "From Mao and the communists I learned how to fight and win in guerrilla warfare. But I also learned how not to manage an economy or a nation. The wealth of a nation is created by the initiative of its individuals."

Then, with the help of Soviet "advisors", the communists from Poland to Romania drove out other parties through terror tactics and legal bans on non-communist political organisations. Soon, each of the Eastern European states was officially committed to cooperating with the USSR.

Normally, according to the conspiracy theory, those responsible were a combination of Jews and communists (and, of course, Jewish communists). This was a blatant lie, but it was a convenient one for Germany's political right wing to cling to, blaming "Jewish saboteurs" and "Bolshevik agents" for Germany's loss in the First World War.

At first glance, a striking aspect of fascism was that many fascists were former communists - Benito Mussolini, the leader of the Italian Fascist Party, had been a prominent member of the Italian Communist Party before the First World War. Both sought transcendent political and social orders that went beyond "mere" parliamentary compromise.

Domestic service was the largest sector of employment in 19th century Britain, but economic thinkers (even communists like the great theorist Karl Marx) routinely ignored servants - they were taken for granted and were effectively invisible, replaceable when injured or ill, and paid so little that they were only a minor item in the household budget.