# So what did the Soviets call people in the West?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-did-the-soviets-call-people-in-the-west/186393>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 5, 2003, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-did-the-soviets-call-people-in-the-west/186393 "2003-07-05T16:48:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Spudo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@Spudo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spudo)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2003, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-did-the-soviets-call-people-in-the-west/186393/1 "2003-07-05T16:48:03Z")

</div>

Western folk had all kinds of names for the citizens of the Soviet Union, like commie, Red, etc etc. So what did your average commie(;)) call people who lived in the west?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![QueenJbean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/3be4f8/32.png) [@QueenJbean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QueenJbean)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2003, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-did-the-soviets-call-people-in-the-west/186393/2 "2003-07-05T19:45:25Z")

</div>

Idiots

No - lol - my dad’s a communist and he ends up resorting to ‘Facist scum’ I’m not entirely fluent in Russian so I can’t help you.

I do know the word ‘Fat Bosses’ and stuff were used. And is my history faulty when I say they called them Whites?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![vertigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/3ec8ea/32.png) [@vertigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vertigo)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2003, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-did-the-soviets-call-people-in-the-west/186393/3 "2003-07-05T19:47:46Z")

</div>

Capitalist Pig.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2003, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-did-the-soviets-call-people-in-the-west/186393/4 "2003-07-05T20:04:19Z")

</div>

The Whites were the White Guards- loyalist (monarchist) army officers who fled to the West to escape the gulag.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![QueenJbean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/3be4f8/32.png) [@QueenJbean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QueenJbean)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2003, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-did-the-soviets-call-people-in-the-west/186393/5 "2003-07-05T20:21:41Z")

</div>

Ahh - I knew the Whites were there somewhere

Whats this about Cossacks as well? That’s dregogatory in Russia I’m told