Etymology

Taistoist

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Today it means: A member of an orthodox pro-Soviet tendency in the mostly Eurocommunist Finnish communist movement in the 1970s and 1980s. Full definition →

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The story

From Finnish Taisto + -ist, after the name of their leader, Taisto Sinisalo.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.