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#BreakingNews
#Trump's #SecretaryOfRetribution

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...#CPSU [Communist Party of the Soviet Union] members fell from 3.5 million to 1.6 million.
Countless #Soviet citizens were executed or lost their lives in the #LaborCamps during this period." 3)

The list of 350 will certainly just be a start. The "great" dictators of the 20th...

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Arch Getty, Origins of the Great Purges. The Soviet Sommunist Party reconsidered. 1933-1938, Cambridge, Mass. 1985 et al in:
https://www.bpb.de/shop/zeitschriften/apuz/archiv/537824/schauprozesse-und-parteisaeuberungen-in-osteuropa-nach-1945/#skip-nav-target


#BreakingNews
#Trump's #SecretaryOfRetribution
#USpol

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via #RawStory1):

"Trump’s ‘secretary of retribution’ has a ‘target list’ of 350 people he wants arrested"

No, this is not a joke. And it is to be expected. As many people already are familiar with how #Hitler suppressed the opposition 2), I'd like to focus on #Soviet #Russia first. That same time period of the 1930's provides insights into a potential 2nd term for...

1)
https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/ivan-raiklin/

No PW:
https://archive.is/80Bky


Today in Labor History July 6, 1918: Uprising against the Bolsheviks by the Left Socialist Revolutionary Party (SR) during the Russian Civil War. One of their goals was to restart the war against Germany, which was helping suppress revolutionary activity in neighboring Ukraine and Finland. They also were frustrated by Bolsheviks’ move away from Revolutionary Socialism and toward “opportunistic service to the state." Maria Spiridonova, who spent years in prison under the Czar, and later under the Bolsheviks, was one of the leaders of the Left Socialist Revolutionaries. She was also a member of the Shesterka ("Six")—6 women SR terrorists who were sent to Siberia. The failure of the SR Uprising facilitated the Bolsheviks consolidation of power and contributed to their creation of a one-party state in the USSR.

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