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  • noun Soviet beliefs or practices.

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Soviet +‎ -ism

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Examples

  • Moscow's neo-Sovietism looks no different than the earlier variety, and it will fail for the same reasons.

    Georgia and the Limits of Russian Power 2010

  • Condi and the neo-cons just couldn't put aside their knee-jerk anti-Sovietism and bring themselves to understand that Russia is not our enemy.

    Joseph A. Palermo: The Obamas' Farewell Tour to Eight Years of Neo-Con Foreign Policy 2009

  • “Dr. Sun Yat-sen holds that the communistic order, or even the Soviet system, cannot actually be introduced into China because there do not exist the conditions for the successful establishment of either communism or Sovietism” read the opening paragraph.

    The Last Empress Hannah Pakula 2009

  • Reply: the current Zionist propaganda uses the Anti - Semitism as the Soviets used Anti-Sovietism.

    Slimy Love Redux: Between Us, Anti-Semites. 2009

  • Perhaps the most unnerving throwback to Sovietism is the budding Putin personality cult.

    Comrade Putin Knows Best 2007

  • Although, in 1946, he already found it necessary to deplore "the hysterical sort of anticommunism which … is gaining currency in our country," [p. 78] years later Kennan would acknowledge: "I seemed to have aroused a strain of emotional and self-righteous anti-Sovietism that in later years I will wish I had not aroused."

    John Lukacs on George Kennan: The Conscience of America 2007

  • During the cold war, the right united under a big tent called "anti-Sovietism."

    Tough Guys Can Say 'I'm Sorry' 2007

  • For the better part of a year now, a new conventional wisdom has been taking hold: that Russia has finally become a "normal" place to do business, or at least as normal as you can get in a post-communist economy struggling to shed 80 years of Sovietism.

    All That Glitters 2007

  • Starts off my the numbers, ends up a weirdly offensive American hymn to the inflexibility of Sovietism.

    Films: 2006 talavlin 2006

  • I am convinced that there would be far less hysterical anti-Sovietism in our country today if realities of this situation were better understood by our people.

    Firedoglake » Sorry Gulf Coast: He Does Wars 2006

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