Sentences with 'purges'
Example sentences and phrases with the word purges and other words derived from it.
• « Stalin had spent the late 1930s "purging" various groups within the Soviet state and army, and his purges had already killed almost all the experienced commanders, leaving inexperienced and sometimes inept replacements in their wake. In many areas, the locals welcomed the Germans as a better controlling force than the Bolsheviks had been, without putting up any resistance. »
• « Of his many destructive policies, Stalin is perhaps best remembered for the purges. Purges' consisted of rounding up and executing members of the communist party, the army or even the police forces themselves. »
• « Stalin relied on the NKVD (Russian secret police) to carry out the purges, targeting the better-off peasants known as kulaks, then the old Bolsheviks (who had participated in the revolution itself), army officers, middle-ranking members of the Communist party and, finally, tens of thousands of ordinary citizens caught up in the grotesque machinery of accusation and punishment that plagued the country in the second half of the 1930s. »
• « Although emblematic of Stalin's tyranny, the purges did not cause nearly as many deaths as his other policies. »