The great purges involving thousands of people, with public trials of traitors and thought-criminals who made abject confession of their crimes and were afterwards executed, were special show-pieces not occurring oftener than once in a couple of years.

• 成千上万人的大清洗，公审叛徒思想犯，叫他们可怜兮兮地坦白认罪，而后处决了事，诸如此类的特别展品两、三年才好拿出一遭。