white terror

See also: White Terror

English

Etymology

By analogy with red terror, with Russia's White Army defending the tsar against the communist Red Army.

Noun

white terror (countable and uncountable, plural white terrors)

  1. (politics) Coordinated violence committed against (actual or imagined) socialists and their sympathizers.
    Antonym: red terror

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