"white terror" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: white terrors [plural]
Etymology: By analogy with red terror, with Russia's White Army defending the tsar against the communist Red Army. Etymology templates: {{m|en|red terror}} red 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. Wikipedia link: white terror 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), fehérterror (Hungarian), terrore bianco [masculine] (Italian), terror branco [masculine] (Portuguese), teroare albă [feminine] (Romanian), terror blanco [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-white_terror-en-noun-ckAsEZ42 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: government, politics

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