• filoria@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    Purge has a Soviet connotation.

    How about “removal of dissidents”?

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      4 months ago

      Generally indicating a firing squad, a wall and the undesirables.

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        4 months ago

        No one does firing squad nowadays. It’s either poison or defenestration.

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      4 months ago

      It’s the Secret Service of Ukraine. Dissidents don’t join the Secret Service in the first place, and the people ‘purged’ got treason charges.