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Political and cultural purges
- McCarthyismOn the 21st of March 1947, President Harry S. Truman signed Executive Order 9835 into law. This document required every federal civil-service employee to…
- InquisitionIn 12th-century France, the Catholic Church launched a judicial procedure to combat heresy among groups like the Cathars and Waldensians.
- Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil ServiceThe Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service appeared in the Reichsgesetzblatt on the 7th of April 1933.
- Great PurgeThe assassination of Sergei Kirov by Leonid Nikolaev in 1934 marked the beginning of a political purge that would consume millions.
- Sulla's proscriptionLucius Cornelius Sulla published two lists containing 520 names on the forum in November 82 BC. These white planks displayed the names of senators and…
- Ukrainian decommunization lawsUkrainian historian Volodymyr Viatrovych and politician Yuri Shukhevych drafted the laws that would reshape Ukraine's public memory.
- Katyn massacreOn the 17th of September 1939, the Red Army advanced into Poland with little resistance. Polish forces under orders from their own government did not engage…
- Sook ChingOn the 15th of February 1942, British and Commonwealth forces surrendered to an outnumbered Japanese army. This event marked Britain's largest surrender in…
- White Terror (Russia)Individual acts of violence against Bolshevik rule began by the end of 1917, but large-scale White Terror violence arguably started in early 1918.