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[–] filoria@lemmy.ml 25 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Purge has a Soviet connotation.

How about "removal of dissidents"?

[–] sunzu@kbin.run 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] pelya@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

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

[–] pelya@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months 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.

[–] aramis87@fedia.io 18 points 4 months ago

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

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.