Purge
In history and political science, to purge is to remove undesirable people from a government or political party.
Purges are often associated with the Stalinist and Maoist Communist regimes. Those who were purged from the party and/or from country's elite (among artists, military, scientists, teachers etc) were sent to labor camps or executed. The most notorious purge was the Great Purge initiated by Joseph Stalin during the 1930s.
The Nazis also engaged in purges, most notably in the Night of the Long Knives and the mass reprisals against Adolf Hitler's opponents following the July Plot.
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