I read recently a youth book called "Papergirl", about the 1920 Winnipeg general strike, and they frequently used that word in it. I think it's not just British slang, it's an old timey word like "commie" is used today.
Bolo was a derogatory expression for Bolsheviks used by British service personnel in the North Russian Expeditionary Force which intervened against the Red Army during the Russian Civil War. Adolf Hitler, Joseph Goebbels, and other Nazi leaders used it in reference to the worldwide political movement coordinated by the Comintern.
sometimes wikipedia produces a banger juxtaposition
I read recently a youth book called "Papergirl", about the 1920 Winnipeg general strike, and they frequently used that word in it. I think it's not just British slang, it's an old timey word like "commie" is used today.
Pinko
Bolshy
Commie
Tankie
What else we got
Red
Liberal
sometimes wikipedia produces a banger juxtaposition
Was it just used as a noun or in the adjective sense listed above?
It was used as an accusatory statement. Like, "you damn bolshie"