Anti-Sovietism

[2][page needed] The Soviet Union made extensive use of the term "enemy of the people" (Russian: враг народа, romanized: vrag naroda).

At various times these terms were applied, in particular, to Tsar Nicholas II and the Imperial family, aristocrats, the bourgeoisie, clerics, business entrepreneurs, anarchists, kulaks, monarchists, Mensheviks, Esers, Bundists, Trotskyists, Bukharinists, the "old Bolsheviks", the army and police, emigrants, saboteurs, wreckers (вредители, "vrediteli"), "social parasites" (тунеядцы, "tuneyadtsy"), Kavezhedists (people who administered and serviced the KVZhD (China Far East Railway), particularly the Russian population of Harbin, China), and those considered bourgeois nationalists (notably Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Armenian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian nationalists, Zionists, Basmachi).

In August 2022 Estonia began removing Soviet monuments, beginning with a T-34 tank in Narva, claiming it was necessary for "public order" and "internal security".

[8][9] On 6 May 2022, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Latvian Prime Minister Krišjānis Kariņš announced that the removal of the controversial monument to the Red Army was inevitable.

[11] Five days later a public fundraising campaign was launched and more than 39,000 euros had been donated by 12 May[12] when the Saeima voted to suspend the functioning of a section regarding the preservation of memorial structures in an agreement between Latvia and Russia.

Russian èmigré anti-Bolshevik poster , c. 1932
"Down with Bolshevism !" - Nazi propaganda poster in Russian for occupied Soviet territories.
Polish anti-Soviet propaganda poster during the Polish–Soviet War , depicting Leon Trotsky . [ a ]
Anti-Soviet rally in Lithuania of about 300,000 people in 1988, condemning the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact . Sąjūdis was a movement which led to the restoration of an Independent State of Lithuania in 1990.
After the Velvet Revolution , the city of Prague placed a Soviet-era T-55 , a symbol of the Soviet invasion of 1968 , on its central square as a target for public ridicule.
Demonstration in Riga to remove a Victory monument to the Red Army , May 2022. [ 10 ]