Red Ukrainian

English

Etymology

red +‎ Ukrainian; see red (“communist”).

Noun

Red Ukrainian (plural Red Ukrainians)

1. (chiefly Canada) A Communist Ukrainian or person of Ukrainian ethnicity.
   • 1950, Seymour Martin Lipset, Agrarian Socialism: The Cooperative Commonwealth Federation in Saskatchewan, page 170:

     The so-called Red Ukrainians, who ideologically support the Soviet Union, are mostly agnostics and atheists.