"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. 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), 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)

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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