Anti-communism

Anti-communism is the opposition to communist ideology, organization, or government, on either an ideological or pragmatic basis. Anti-communism is a catch-all phrase which defines any opposition to communism as a philosophical basis for a political and social alliance.

Anti-communist statesmen and military leaders

• Fulgencio Batista - Dictator of Cuba, overthrown in the Cuban Revolution
• Pieter Willem Botha prime minister (later state president) of apartheid South Africa 1978-1989
• Zbigniew Brzezinski - United States National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter, 1977-1980
• Martin Dies, Jr. - United States congressman 1930-1944, 1952-1958
• Ngo Dinh Diem - President of South Vietnam 1955-1963, assassinated
• King Faisal - King of Saudi Arabia
• Francisco Franco - dictator of Spain 1939-1975, following the Spanish Civil War
• Barry Goldwater - United States Senator 1953-1964, 1968-1987
• Jesse Helms - United States Senator
• Adolf Hitler - Chancellor of Germany 1933-1945
• Miklós Horthy - Regent of Hungary 1920-1944
• Chiang Kai-Shek - leader and strongman of the Republic of China 1928-1975, later Taiwan
• John F. Kennedy - President of the United States 1961-1963
• Nguyen Khanh - premier (1964) of South Vietnam and Chief of State of the Government of Free Vietnam.
• Daniel Malan - prime minister of apartheid South Africa 1948-1954
• Douglas MacArthur - United States general, led the American forces in the Korean War
• Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim - White military leader, later President of Finland 1867-1951
• Ferdinand Marcos - Dictator of the Philippines 1965-1986
• Mobutu Sese Seko - dictator of Zaire 1965-1997 (although the country he ruled did not become Zaire until 1971)
• Joseph McCarthy - United States Senator 1947-1957
• Benito Mussolini - Fascist Dictator of Italy 1922-1944
• Richard Nixon - President of the United States 1969-1974, established diplomatic relations with Communist China
• Lon Nol - Premier (later president) and dictator of Cambodia, overthrown by the Khmer Rouge
• Boun Oum - Prince of Laos
• Mohammad Reza Pahlavi - Shah of Iran 1953-1979, overthrown in the Iranian revolution
• George Papadopoulos - Greek dictator from 1967 to 1974
• Augusto Pinochet - Dictator of Chile 1973-1990, overthrew the socialist government of Salvador Allende.
• Ronald Reagan - President of the United States 1981-1989, policies caused the end of the Cold War
• Syngman Rhee - president of South Korea 1948-1960
• António de Oliveira Salazar - Dictator of Portugal 1932-1968
• Jonas Savimbi - rebel against the Marxist government of Angola
• Ian Smith - Prime Minister of Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe
• Paul Schäfer - former leader of the anti-communist Colonia Dignidad community in Chile
• Anastasio Somoza García - Dictator of Nicaragua
• Anastasio Somoza Debayle - president of Nicaragua 1967-1972, 1974-1979, overthrown by the Sandinistas
• Luis Somoza Debayle - president of Nicaragua
• Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom - Prime Minister of apartheid South Africa 1954-1958
• Alfredo Stroessner - Dictator of Paraguay 1954-1989
• Suharto - Dictator of Indonesia
• Svinhufvud - President of Finland 1931-1937
• Robert Taft - United States Senator
• Margaret Thatcher - Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1979-1990
• Nguyen Van Thieu - Last President of South Vietnam 1967-1975
• Moise Tshombe - President of Katanga
• Rafael Trujillo - Dictator of Dominican Republic
• Harry S. Truman - President of the United States, 1945-1953
• Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd - Prime minister of apartheid South Africa 1958-1966, architect of grand apartheid
• Balthazar Johannes Vorster - Prime minister of apartheid South Africa 1966-1978