white terror

See also: White Terror

English

Etymology

By analogy with red terror, with the "white" Thermidorian Reaction against the "red" reign of terror.

Noun

white terror (countable and uncountable, plural white terrors)

1. (politics) Coordinated violence committed against (actual or imagined) socialists and their sympathizers.

   Antonym: red terror

Translations

violence

• Catalan: terror blanc m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 白色恐怖 (zh) (báisè kǒngbù)

• Finnish: valkoinen terrori
• French: terreur blanche f
• Hungarian: fehérterror (hu)
• Italian: terrore bianco m
• Portuguese: terror branco m
• Romanian: teroare albă f
• Spanish: terror blanco m