"white terror" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: white terrors [plural]
Etymology: By analogy with red terror, with the "white" Thermidorian Reaction against the "red" reign of terror. Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} white terror (countable and uncountable, plural white terrors)
  1. (politics) Coordinated violence committed against (actual or imagined) socialists and their sympathizers. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Politics Translations (violence): terror blanc [masculine] (Catalan), 白色恐怖 (báisè kǒngbù) (Chinese Mandarin), valkoinen terrori (Finnish), terreur blanche [feminine] (French), λευκή τρομοκρατία (lefkí tromokratía) [feminine] (Greek), fehérterror (Hungarian), terrore bianco [masculine] (Italian), 白色テロ (hakushoku tero) (Japanese), terror branco [masculine] (Portuguese), teroare albă [feminine] (Romanian), terror blanco [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-white_terror-en-noun-ckAsEZ42 Categories (other): Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Portuguese translations Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 45 55 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 45 55 Topics: government, politics Disambiguation of 'violence': 99 1
  2. (politics, Hong Kong) The erosion of democratic freedoms under Chinese rule. Tags: Hong-Kong, countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Politics
    Sense id: en-white_terror-en-noun-gIkWzPqw Categories (other): Hong Kong English, English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Romanian translations, Terms with Spanish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 44 56 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 41 59 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 42 58 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 36 64 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 40 60 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 40 60 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 39 61 Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 44 56 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 45 55 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 34 66 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 34 66 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 38 62 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 45 55 Disambiguation of Terms with Romanian translations: 40 60 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 31 69 Topics: government, politics

Inflected forms

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          "text": "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 coal from Mentoukou. On these streets on Dec. 9, 1935, desperate Peking students had declared war on all kinds of fascism (so had I) and marched to break the “white terror,” as they called it.",
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