lustration
- noun
- /lʌsˈtreɪʃən/
- Formal
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lustración
- In the Czech Republic, Catholic and Protestant churches likewise played little role in shaping either the trials or the lustration that followed the country's transition away from Communism in 1989.
Examples
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Through lustration, the country aimed to cleanse its institutions of individuals involved in corrupt practices under the former regime.
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Or will they turn their backs to the future and look to the past with lustration statutes, de-communization of civil society, and revenge?
Academic text (1995) -
Poland's lustration, ill-prepared and hastily executed, achieved aims opposite to those intended.
Academic text (1996) -
A considerable amount of informal lustration has also occurred during the five-year period of Albania's transition (Imholz 1993).
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Campaigns of lustration (political "cleansing") have imposed ideological tests for employment and political participation in the Balkan countries and in parts of the former Soviet Union.
Academic text (1995) -
Less than a year later, the government suffered the fiasco of lustracja, or lustration: the attempt to weed out from state structures those who had been informers for the totalitarian regime's secret police.
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The new lustration law required many former officials to renounce their past affiliations with the previous regime.
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After the revolution, the government implemented a lustration process to remove members of the old political system from power.
Synonyms
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7.8
A sudden removal of people from an organization for political reasons
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4.9
Removing unwanted people or practices to improve an organization
Antonyms
How Purging
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Etymology
The word lustration comes from the Latin lustrāre, meaning 'to purify', and is related to the English word luster ('shine'), so you can think of it as a kind of cleaning. A political lustration is the process of removing people tied to the old regime to 'purify' the government.