Meaning of Red Star | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A depiction of a red star, often used as a symbol of communism and the Soviet Union.
2. Socialism or communism itself.
   metonymically
3. Red Star Belgrade (a professional football club from Belgrade, Serbia)

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“Red Star over Europe: The Bolsheviks seized power firmly convinced that socialist revolution was imminent in advanced western countries. These, they believed, would come⟳ to the aid of backward Russia. Red Star over Asia: As the prospects of revolution dimmed in the west, Lenin looked eastwards to the backward countries colonised by the great powers. Here the struggle⟳ for independence might be combined with the fight⟳ for socialism.”

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