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- noun A
political purge inRussia .
Etymologies
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Russian чистка cleaning, purge.
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Indeed the Purge — in Russian, 'chistka' or 'cleaning' — was something heroic to those who made it, just as the building of the great factory was heroic to Bibikov.
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