white terror
Meanings
noun
- Coordinated violence committed against (actual or imagined) socialists and their sympathizers.
- The erosion of democratic freedoms under Chinese rule.
name
- Any one of several specific white terrors in history.
Word forms
Etymology
By analogy with red terror, with the "white" Thermidorian Reaction against the "red" reign of terror.
Antonyms
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