COMMUNIST “PURGE”
SUSPECTED OFFICIALS WHOLESALE DISMISSALS Times Cable. LONDON, Tuesday. The Riga correspondent of “The Times” says the Communist Party in Russia has been thrown into a ferment by a fresh “purge.” Broadly this consists of the removal from their posts of all the party’s officials who have shown a conciliatory disposition toward the Right Wing opposition. It was understood that these victinls were not to be expelled from the party, but many of those dismissed have now been expelled. They include some who were previously expelled and readmitted after they had recanted. There have been wholesale dismissals in some towns. A “purge” has also been begun in Government establishments. Two hundred officials have been discharged at Archangel alone as being untrustworthy and suspected of anti-revolutionary sympathies. Bubnoff, a member of the Military Council, addressed the Red Army commanders and urged them to suppress agitators who were spreading disloyalty among the troops under the influence of Trotzky, who is now in exile.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 499, 31 October 1928, Page 1
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