Usually means: Prefer death over communist allegiance.
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  1. better dead than red: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. better dead than red, better Dead than Red, better dead than Red: Wiktionary
  3. Better dead than red: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. better dead than red: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wikipedia (Better dead than red)

noun:  "Better dead than red" and the reverse "better red than dead" are dueling slogans regarding communism, and generally socialism, the former anti-communist slogan ("rather dead than a communist") and the latter pro-communist slogan ("rather a communist than dead").


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