white terror
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English
Etymology
By analogy with red terror, with the "white" Thermidorian Reaction against the "red" reign of terror.
Noun
white terror (countable and uncountable, plural white terrors)
- (politics) Coordinated violence committed against (actual or imagined) socialists and their sympathizers.
- Antonym: red terror
- 1973 May 31, Nym Wales, “‘I Was Back in Peking’”, in The New York Times, sourced from MADISON, Conn., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on November 10, 2024, page 41:
- I looked out the window of the former Grand Hotel de Pekin and thought of the days before World War II when I waltzed there with assorted Nazi, fascist and Scandinavian diplomats. On the street the slow‐moving bicycles moved silently where once I listened to the shuffling pad‐pad of camels bringing coal from Mentoukou. On these streets on Dec. 9, 1935, desperate Peking students had declared war on all kinds of fascism (so had I) and marched to break the “white terror,” as they called it.
Translations
violence
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