revolutionary

revolutionary
   Communist
   You might have thought that things would stop revolving after the Communists had attained power, but you would have been wrong:
    Mikoyan concludes the revolutionaries should establish 'revolutionary organs of power' (a euphemism for Communist dictatorship). {Daily Telegraph, June 1980)
   Such power, if threatened, has to be met with revolutionary firmness:
    Western governments wouldn't be capable of handling them with 'Revolutionary firmness'. Meaning eight armoured divisions and a couple of MVD brigades... And a thousand cattle trucks for the lucky survivors. (Price, 1972)
   Revolutionary elections are those rigged by the Communists:
    ... the post-war evolution of, say, Tito's partisan movement into a one-party state should prevent excessive naivete about what EAM's organizers meant when they talked about 'revolutionary elections'. (Mazower, 1993 — EAM, the Greek Communist party, held a ballot while still under German occupation. EAM chose all the candidates and made electors sign the ballot papers. No prizes were awarded for predicting the outcome)

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