Word: precommunist
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...introduction, the Guards were on the rampage in Peking, roughing up Chinese in Western dress, changing street signs to "revolutionary" names, and humiliating Franciscan nuns. The Guards aimed not only at rooting out all foreign influence in Mao's China but also at obliterating China's own preCommunist past. Nor was that all. "We are not only stirring up a revolutionary storm in China," they cried, "we shall spread it over the whole world." As for anyone who dared to oppose the new trend, the Guards pledged to "reform him, impose dictatorship on him, and fight him until...
...frustrations and failures of rigid Communist economic planning are just as keenly felt in Czechoslovakia-perhaps because the Czechs have always known better. In prewar (and preCommunist) Czechoslovakia, "Made in Czechoslovakia" was a label of quality respected the world over. No longer. So shoddy have Czech goods become that in some cases even Moscow has re jected the output of its Comecon daughter...