Designation for political or class opponents of a state; term heavily used during the Great Purge of 1937.
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The people of Lintz were the enemies of the people of Andernach.
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Well, Captain, so you lend your house to enemies of the people?
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Cossack brothers, execute no orders of the enemies of the people.
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These murderers are the enemies of the people of Ireland, the SDLP leader said.
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Conservative cabinet ministers should cease to speak of them as enemies of the people.
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Both have been ridiculed by street protesters as " enemies of the people".
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His rallies brim with menace and he has labeled journalists as enemies of the people.
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Party bosses came from Aginskoye and scolded the Buryats for hosting enemies of the people.
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They used to say that our titled families were worthless idlers and ' enemies of the people'.
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Paris is becoming infested by enemies of the people, and we must rid ourselves of them.
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There was the mystery, and only enemies of the people touched it with profane and curious hands.
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The front page of the Daily Mail labelled the three judges " enemies of the people".
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Down with the enemies of the people!
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He labels the press as the " enemies of the people", and others readily echo his tropes.
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They believe that officers and experts alike, being ex-bourgeois, must be enemies of the people, insidiously engineering reaction.
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And what insanity to provoke enemies of the people all around who would bring us things to eat!
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