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Anti-soviet




Three different flavors of the usage of the term may be distinguished.
  • Anti-Sovietism in the international politics, such as American opposition to the Soviet Union during the Cold War .

  • Anti-Soviet opponents of Bolshevik s shortly after the Russian Revolution and during the Russian Civil War .

  • As applied to Soviet citizens involved or allegedly involved in anti-Soviet activities.



SOVIET UNION

In the USSR, the Epithet "antisoviet" was Synonym ous with " Counterrevolutionary ". The noun "antisovietism" was rarely used and the noun "antisovietist" (, ''antisovetchik'') was used in a derogatory sense.

During the Russian Civil War that followed the October Revolution of 1917 , the anti-Soviet side was the White Movement .

Whole categories of people, such as clergy, Kulak s, former Imperial Russia n police, etc. were automatically considered anti-Soviet. More categories are listed in the article " Enemy Of The People ".

Being anti-Soviet was a criminal offense in the Soviet Union. Anti-Soviet Agitation and activities were Political Crime s handled by the Article 58 of the RSFSR penal code and similar articles in other Soviet Republic s.