anti-Soviet

adjective

an·​ti-So·​vi·​et

ˌan-tē-ˈsō-vē-ˌet,

-ˈsä-,

-vē-ət,

ˌan-tī- 

: opposing or hostile toward the Soviet Union or Soviet ideology

If the officer in charge of Britain's anti-Soviet plans was a Soviet agent himself, how could any anti-Soviet operation succeed?

—Phillip Knightley

Dozens of Stinger missiles, left over from the 1980s anti-Soviet resistance, are thought to remain hidden in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

—Ben Farmer

… the authorities in Beijing were even more staunchly anti-Soviet than most Americans.

—Arthur Waldron

anti-Sovietism

ˌan-tē-ˈsō-vē-ə-ˌti-zəm

-ˈsä-

ˌan-tī- 

noun

Their views have been characterized by a visceral anti-Sovietism, a commitment to achieving as much military edge over the Soviet Union as possible …

—Ken Booth

Examples of anti-Soviet in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

These anti-Soviet activists were in this way identified and killed. —Andrei Soldatov, Foreign Affairs, 27 Dec. 2023

Weaving together themes of love and exile, politics and the deeply personal, Kundera’s novel won critical acclaim, earning him a wide readership among Westerners who embraced both his anti-Soviet subversion and the eroticism threaded through many of his works. —Elaine Ganley and Lori Hinnant, Chicago Tribune, 12 July 2023

Born in 1929 in what was then Czechoslovakia, Kundera was known for intertwining erotic tones with anti-Soviet sentiment in short stories, essays and poems. —Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2023

After all, for centuries, Ukrainians have tended to identify more with grassroots movements or solitary heroes—the nineteenth-century poet Taras Shevchenko, say, or the anti-Soviet dissident Vasyl Stus—than with nonexistent or ill-defined national institutions. —Nataliya Gumenyuk, Foreign Affairs, 24 Feb. 2023

True, a handful of Ukrainians recall their joint anti-Soviet operations alongside the Wehrmacht with a discomforting pride. —Michael S. Neiberg, Washington Post, 12 June 2023

Eventually, the anti-Soviet mujahedeen brawled for power, with the Taliban coming out on top in 1996. —Hannah Beech, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2023

Before that, Bialiatski was an advocate for democracy and Belarusian independence, organizing anti-Soviet protests in the 1980s. —Daniel Victor and Andrew Higgins, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Mar. 2023

While Putin was deep in the Soviet fold in the 1980s, Mr. Pavlovsky spent three years in internal exile in the sub-Arctic Komi Republic after conviction for anti-Soviet activities that included links to publications calling for political reforms. —Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2023

Word History

First Known Use

1918, in the meaning defined above