white terrors

Noun

white terror (countable and uncountable, plural white terrors)

1. Coordinated violence committed against (actual or imagined) socialists and their sympathizers.
   • 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...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 10 Nov 2024, page 41

   Antonyms:

   red terror

2. (Hong-Kong) The erosion of democratic freedoms under Chinese rule.

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