• filoria@lemmy.ml
    316·
    2 years ago

    Purge has a Soviet connotation.

    How about “removal of dissidents”?

    • sunzu@kbin.run
      123·
      2 years ago

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

      • pelya@lemmy.world
        21·
        2 years ago

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

    • pelya@lemmy.world
      71·
      2 years 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.