Meanings
present singular third person decommunizes · participle present decommunizing · participle past decommunized · past decommunized · alternative decommunise · alternative de-communize · alternative de-Communize
- transitiveTo divest of communism.
The new vision of NATO, as outlined by Baker in his speech at Berlin on December 12, 1989, of reaching out for relationships with the decommunizing states of Eastern Europe, was to be met with resistance by the French president.
2001, Charles Cogan, The Third Option: The Emancipation of European Defense, 1989-2000, page 27
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Translations
French décommuniser
- décommuniserTo divest of communism
German entkommunisieren
- entkommunisierenTo divest of communism
Polish dekomunizować
- dekomunizowaćTo divest of communism
Russian декоммунизи́ровать
- декоммунизи́ровать (dekommunizírovatʹ)To divest of communism
Ukrainian декомунізува́ти
- декомунізува́ти (dekomunizuváty)To divest of communism
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