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In history, religion and political science, a purge is a position removal or execution of people who are considered undesirable by those in power from a government, another, their team leaders, or society as a whole. A group undertaking such an effort is labeled as purging itself.
The purge covered top-level government figures down to local officials, and included CCP General Secretary Zhao Ziyang and his associates. [1] The purge took the form of a massive ideological campaign that lasted 18 months. At least 4 million Communist Party members (a tenth of the total) were under some sort of investigation.
Articles relating to political and cultural purges, position removal or execution of people who are considered undesirable by those in power from a government, another organization, their team leaders, or society as a whole.
A senior U.S. defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters there was increasing concern within the Pentagon that Trump would purge career civilian employees from the department.
While Allen’s purge order purported to target noncitizens, more than 2,000 of the 3,200 people removed from the voter rolls were actually U.S. citizens. ... it is no surprise that almost all of ...
The 1979 Ba'ath Party Purge (Arabic: تطهير حزب البعث), also called the Comrades Massacre [1] [2] (Arabic: مجزرة الرفاق), was a public purge of the Iraqi Ba'ath Party orchestrated on 22 July 1979 by then-president Saddam Hussein [3] six days after his arrival to the presidency of the Iraqi Republic on 16 July 1979.
Six hundred of the 1,600 people Virginia had tagged for removal under its now-blocked purge program were flagged for checking the noncitizenship box on a DMV form there.
Teachers have reported a forced change in political, academic, and critical culture, with firing and exclusion of traditional academic profiles, with worries about the long-term effect of such change and academic purge on the expertise and tone of both Turkey's researches and governmental statutes, culture and policies. [104]