A major speech to the 20th Party Congress, in 1956 on #ThisDayInHistory, #NikitaKhrushchev denounced #JosephStalin's crimes against #socialism & the Soviet people. #Stalin was attacked for his #CultOfPersonality, and the #GreatPurge and its attendant #Gulag system were disavowed.
On #ThisDayInHistory, #SergeiKirov was assassinated in #Leningrad in 1934. The death of a senior member of the #CommunistParty of the #USSR was used by #Stalin as an excuse to launch the #GreatPurge, leading to massacres, show-trials, and expansion of the #gulag prison system.
Gotta clean up all the old revolutionaries

@remixtures

#AlignmentOfAcademia #Nazism

I agree, Michael.

However, make no mistake, "...the plan does not promote reform but instead risks creating “government-funded orthodoxy...” is NOT an unwanted sides effect, but the AIM of #MAGA's policies.

The Alignment of Academia and Science is part of 👉The #DumbingOfAmerica: The #StultificationOfThePeople👈:

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/114191854138931406

To show a not unlikely future, we should look at the following:

The #GreatPurge (1933):

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/114360266558730050

@SherBeareth

👉Are you holding your breath? --Night of the Long Knives in Virginia? 👈

ETA:

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...except that General Hodges would have missed out on the #GreatPurge of 1933--two years earlier. 😉

ETA2:
He *did* probably mean the #NightOfTheLongKnives /#RöhmPutsch / #OperationHummingbird from 06/30-07/02, 1934.

85-1,000 of the #SA, including its leader, #ErnstRöhm, as well as #GregorStrasser, and former chancellor, #KurtVonSchleicher were assassinated:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Long_Knives

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Night of the Long Knives - Wikipedia

Neonatsiryhmä ”pyrkii aktiivisesti kasvamaan 🇺🇸” suunnitellulla puolisotilaallisella koulutustapahtumalla

”Tukikohta nousee esiin varjoista ja kasvattaa joukkojaan, kun Valkoinen talo sulkee silmänsä äärioikeistolta”

”Sen sijaan FBI:n johtaja Patel on ryhtynyt poistamaan agentteja äärioikeiston jahtaamisesta, ja yksi Trumpin ensimmäisistä toimista oli armahdusten myöntäminen joukkona kaikille tammikuun 6.päivän kapinallisille”

#Venäjä #UusiNormaali #Bezmenov #GreatPurge
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/07/the-base-neo-nazi-group-paramilitary-training?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Neo-Nazi group ‘actively seeking to grow in US’ with planned paramilitary training event

The Base is emerging from shadows and ramping up its ranks as White House turns blind eye to the far right

The Guardian
The Great Purge (1933)

“If the dismissal of Jewish scientists means the annihilation of contemporary German science, then we shall do without science for a few years!” — Adolf Hilter

Privatdozent

@andrewdessler

#USpol #AlignmentOfScience
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#EmigrateNow!

... The #GreatPurge (1933)

#EmigrateNow!

... More than 250 #Jewish professors and employees were fired from the University of #Berlin in 1933–34 and numerous doctorates were withdrawn. 👉In May, some 20,000 books written by “degenerates” and opponents of the Nazi regime were removed from the university library and burned in the #Babelplatz ... 👈"

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