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Purge

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.

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Purge

Nodes129
Edges128
Triples171
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.015504
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related to Characteristics · 21
Purge → Beginning, Chairman Mao Zedong, China, Chinese Communist Party's, Communist Party, Crimean Tatars, Cultural Revolution, Czechoslovakia, Deng Xiaoping, German Civil Service, In Maoist, Jews, Long Knives, Mass, Nazi Germany, Night, President Liu Shaoqi, Secretary-General, Soviet Union, The Shanghai
related to Japan after WWII · 20
Purge → Allied Powers, Carried, China, Cold War, General Douglas MacArthur, General Matthew Ridgway, It, Japan, Japanese, Japanese Communist Party, Korean War, North Korea, Occupation, Red Purge, Red Scare, Reverse Course, SCAP, Supreme Commander, The Red Purge, World War II
related to North Korea · 18
Purge → August Incident, China, Chinese Yanan, Jang Song-thaek, Kim, Kim Il Sung's, Kim Jong Il, Kim Jong Un, Korea, Members, Most, North Korea, Soviet, The, USSR, While, Workers' Party, WPK
related to English Civil War purge, 1648–1650 · 16
Purge → After, British America, Counter-revolutionaries, England, English Civil War's Pride's, English Long Parliament, House, In, Levellers, Lords, New England Colonies, New Model Army, Oliver Cromwell's Commonwealth, Stuart Restoration, The, The Parliament
related to Iran · 14
Purge → Art’s, Cultural Revolution, December, Education, In August, Iranian, Islamic, It, Many, Ministry, On, Tehran University, The, The Supreme Council
related to Soviet Union · 13
Purge → CPSU, Great Purge, Gulag, In, Joseph Stalin, Nikolai Yezhov, Purges, Soviet Union, Stalin, Stalinism, The, USSR, While
related to Turkey · 12
Purge → After, As, Development Party-led, Government, Gülen, Justice, Politicized Kurds, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, The, Turkey, Turkish, Turkish Armed Forces
related to Communist Cuba · 11
Purge → After, Arnaldo Ochoa, Batista, Castro, Communist Party, Cuba, Cuban Revolution, Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces, Fidel Castro, One, Purges
related to Saudi Arabia · 11
Purge → Crown Prince Mohammed, It, King Abdullah, Mohammed, November, Salman, Salman's, Saudi, Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabian, The
related to China · 10
Purge → China, Chinese, Chinese Communist Party, Communist, General Secretary, In, National Congress, The, Xi Jinping, Xi Jinping's

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purges purged government communist political party china carried people often civil also elites red korea cuba execution members new removed

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Purgeis aposition removal or execution of people who are considered undesirable by those in power from a government0.90text
the Levellers were purgedinstance ofCounter-revolutionaries such as royalists and more radical revolutionaries0.80text
Purgerelated to CharacteristicsThe Shanghai0.60section
Purgerelated to CharacteristicsChina0.60section
Purgerelated to CharacteristicsNight0.60section
Purgerelated to CharacteristicsLong Knives0.60section
Purgerelated to CharacteristicsNazi Germany0.60section
Purgerelated to CharacteristicsMass0.60section
Purgerelated to CharacteristicsCrimean Tatars0.60section
Purgerelated to CharacteristicsSoviet Union0.60section
Purgerelated to CharacteristicsThough0.60section
Purgerelated to CharacteristicsCommunist Party0.60section

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