Definition of decommunize in English:
decommunize
(British decommunise)
verbdiːˈkɒmjʊnʌɪzdēˈkämyəˌnīz
[with object]Remove the features or influence of communism from.
Example sentencesExamples
- Since Indian agriculture was never communised, it did not have to be decommunised.
Derivatives
noun
The issue of decommunization reflects most seriously the dilemma of defining and introducing new rules of post-communist politics.
Example sentencesExamples
- On the right, there is general dismay over the slow pace of decommunisation and the emergence of corrupt links between politics and business.
- Historical analogies with denazification and decommunization abounded.
- The government has an active right-wing agenda, focusing on decommunisation and lustration (political purification).
- Poland has not gone through a thorough decommunisation process since the fall of the regime 18 years ago.