Word: purgee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In a sweeping purge, the President got rid of nine top generals, including Army Chief Angel Solari and the commanders of Argentina's three armies, plus 25 officers of lesser grade. All had retired at their own request, said a deadpan communique, in order to speed up promotion for...
The plot is quite simple. An old man, once a leader of the Russian revolution, is arrested during the Communist purge trials of 1937, and his prosecutor uses terrifying intimidation to get a confession from him. Rubashov was one of the hundreds of old Bolsheviks whose deviation from the Stalinist...
The rest of the film deals with the progress of the conspiracy and with Rommel's rather lefthanded endorsement of the plotters' aims. To convince himself he has no alternative, Rommel visits Hitler for a tingling interview. He comes away more depressed by the Führer'...
At week's end, Perón shook up his high command. Out went his navy minister, presumably because the boys had not been loyal enough. Then he rounded up hundreds of officers and political leaders. The revolt was over; the purge was on.
It seems useless to point out that this method of purge closely parallels the system of the totalitarian nation we consider an enemy. This and other facts--about this trend destroying the very ideals we are supposedly trying to save--all that has been repeated over and over again.