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Better dead than Red - Definition |
| Related Words: Acculturate, Adapt, Advance, Advantage, Alter, Altered, Amend, Ascendant, Beat, Best, Bettor, Boost, Cap, Capping, Change |
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The political slogan "Better dead than Red" was first used in its German version "Lieber tot als rot" by Joseph Goebbels in the end phase of the Second World War to motivate the German military and population to fight the Red Army to the end. Goebbels himself took the slogan literally as he committed suicide before the Red Army could capture him.
The English version comes probably from the original German but it could also be a re-invention. The slogan was used in the United States in the 1950s by anti-Communists to express their opposition to a Communist takeover in the USA, or indeed to any potent leftist influence at all. The counter-slogan "Better Red than dead" also developed.
See also: McCarthyism
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