• Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    According to The Free Dictionary, the term fellow travelers “originally applied to people in the early days of the Soviet Union who supported the Russian revolution and the Communist Party but were not members.”

    Additional fun fact: the name given to the early Russian satellites, “Sputnik,” has a meaning of “fellow traveler." It was mentioned on that dictionary page, but I ran it through Google Translate just to be sure. (See the third option under “More translations.”)