Word: purgee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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A Light on History. As the person closest to Stalin during much of his brutal, 30-year reign, Svetlana could well shed much light on shrouded facets of Soviet political history. She was just a young girl when Stalin launched his bitter purge of the 1930s. Even after Stalin'...
This was the third and final phase of the Council purge. Three weeks ago they removed their Vice-President from office, who then proceeded to resign his membership. Two weeks ago, they summarily dropped eight members for attending fewer than three of the 13 meetings, making ten in all who...
The Council had no constitutional basis for the present purge. Four freshmen attended last week's meeting to criticize the arbitrariness of the Council's dismissals.
Austin said he hoped that the constitutional provision would prevent poor attendance next year. He also noted that there had already been a marked increase in attendance since the present purge got under way.
The arbitrariness of the Maost leadership has been brought into sharper focus during the purge that is being carried out at present (mid-1966). Purges or "semi-purges" in the past were carried out with a kind of surgical precision. Quite often the victims could be linked with policy disagreements...