In Stalin's view, the state must be powerful enough to defeat counterrevolutionary elements.

By September 1918, the Volunteer Army had already had 30,000-35,000 men thanks to mobilization of the Kuban Cossacks and "counterrevolutionary elements", gathered in the North Caucasus.

The directive exiled from Azerbaijan 2,500 Iranian nationals and 700 families of counterrevolutionary elements (former mullahs, kulaks, persons previously sentenced).

A plastic sign in the entryway puts the blame for Mr. Liu's death on Jiang Qing, Mao's wife, and Lin Biao, once designated as Mao's heir, both now labeled "counterrevolutionary elements."

Then they are termed "counterrevolutionary elements."

In June, he and his "nefarious" policies were publicly discredited, and his followers condemned as "wrecking, counterrevolutionary nationalist elements".

There are always counterrevolutionary elements among them.

The Cheka received a large number of resources, and became known for ruthlessly pursuing any perceived counterrevolutionary elements.

The membership roll was often alleged by party ideologues to contain a large component of inactive, opportunistic, and "counterrevolutionary" elements.

Poland continues to be unstable, due to counterrevolutionary elements within their society.