Anti-communist mass killings

Politically motivated mass killings of communists

Anti-communist mass killings, anti-communist genocides or genocides against communists are forms of political cleansing of population involving violence such as genocide and mass killings of communists, alleged communists, or their alleged supporters which were committed by anti-communists and political organizations or governments which opposed communism. The communist movement has faced opposition since it was founded and the opposition to it has often been organized and violent. Many anti-communist mass killing campaigns waged during the Cold War were supported and backed by the United States and its Western Bloc allies.

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