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Eastern European revolutionary goes round with destructive types (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

vandals

'destructive types' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'eastern european revolutionary goes round with' is the wordplay.
'eastern european' becomes 'slav' (I've seen this before).
'revolutionary' is a reversal indicator.
'goes round' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'with' becomes 'and' (I've seen this before**).
'slav' in reverse letter order is 'vals'.
'vals' going around 'and' is 'VANDALS'.

(Other definitions for vandals that I've seen before include "Destructive types" , "They destroy or deface property" , "Destroyers of the Roman Empire" , "Destructive hooligans" , "they cause destruction" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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