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3. Sort of like the Schutzstaffel (SS) versus the Sturmabteilung (SA)?

Fri Aug 27, 2021, 06:42 PM

Aug 2021

It's not uncommon for a faction of a movement to want to assert authority and to purify and discipline the movement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Long_Knives

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