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anti-soviet

noun

(in the Soviet Union).
1. (before the revolution) any governmental council.
2. (after the revolution) a local council, originally elected only by manual workers, with certain powers of local administration.
3. (after the revolution) a higher council elected by a local council, being part of a hierarchy of soviets culminating in the Supreme Soviet.
any similar council or assembly connected with a socialistic governmental system elsewhere.
(initial capital letter) Often Soviets. a governing official or person living in the Soviet Union: The Soviets have denied our charge.

adjective

of or relating to a soviet.
(initial capital letter) of the Soviet Union: a Soviet statesman.

adjective

opposed to anything characteristic of or relating to the former Soviet Union and its governmentanti-Soviet propaganda
opposed to the government and policies of the former Soviet Unionthey are not pro-Nazi but anti-Soviet

noun

(in the former Soviet Union) an elected government council at the local, regional, and national levels, which culminated in the Supreme Soviet
(in prerevolutionary Russia) a local revolutionary council

adjective

of or relating to a soviet

adjective

of, characteristic of, or relating to the former Soviet Union, its people, or its government

1917, from Russian sovet “governing council,” literally “council,” from Old Russian suvetu “assembly,” from su “with” (from *su(n)- “with, together,” from PIE *ksun- “with”) + vetu “counsel.” The whole is a loan-translation of Greek symboulion “council of advisers.” As an adjective from 1918.