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Originally Posted by NanbanJim
I think I learned the use of the word wrong.!
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I had also learned it wrong, but until you mentioned T2k being the source I did not think to go back an look for it.
I found what obviously is an incorrect usage in the Eastern European source book.
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The hard-liner pogrom of 1991 came as a shock for the government of Ukraine, which joined its neighbor Belarus in denouncing the new government and its new USSR. Soviet troops moved to secure both countries, allowing them to keep their governments as long as they toed the Soviet line. This hostility was returned in force in 1996, when Ukrainian troops declared their allegiance to the government of Ukraine, supporting it against the Soviets in hopes that losses on the Chinafront will keep the central government from sending military units to reconquer the country. They were wrong, of course: The Soviets sent troops to both Ukraine and Belarus, and the fighting began anew. The hostilities were put to an abrupt end by the nuclear war, when NATO bombs fell on any Soviet unit that looked like a good target.
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From that usage i thought it had meant "purge".