• filoria@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    30
    arrow-down
    7
    ·
    4 days ago

    Purge has a Soviet connotation.

    How about “removal of dissidents”?

    • sunzu@kbin.run
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      12
      arrow-down
      4
      ·
      4 days ago

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

      • pelya@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        4 days ago

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

    • pelya@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      7
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      4 days 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.

    • freagle
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      4 days ago

      You know what’s funny? Purge is an English word.

  • aramis87@fedia.io
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    20
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    4 days ago

    Hunh. Now I’m wondering how many soldiers and security personnel have had loved ones kidnapped from the occupied areas.

  • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    14
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    4 days ago

    Introducing Colonel Oleksiy Morozov to the staff on Monday, Zelenskiy said his main task was to ensure that only those who see their future tied with Ukraine join the agency - his first comments since the agents were arrested.

    “And, of course, the agency must be cleared of anyone who chooses not Ukraine for themselves or discredits the state guard service,” he said on Telegram.

    Smart.

    Putin’s government is all about subterfuge.

    Don’t hire anybody who is in it for the money.