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.
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