In Stalin's view, the motherland of Socialism was surrounded on the outside by ruthless capitalists and threatened from within by class enemies and counter-revolutionaries.
Antoinette was one of the first victims of the revolutionary Terror, a dark period during which 17,000 nobles and counter-revolutionaries were indiscriminately killed.
And, of course, I'm sure that people find that to be a contentious description for you to describe the folks on the other side as counterrevolutionaries.
Then came the Reign of Terror, during which radicals in possession of the convention executed in large numbers counter-revolutionists and those suspected of sympathy with the monarchy.
These were counterrevolutionaries who came in trying to roll back the civil rights laws of the 1960s, and that was a stepping stone for them to be placed in positions of much greater power decades on.