Have political purges ever succeeded for a society?

[Babale]

@MrDibble

Oh, there were some little hiccups on the way from there to now

(Emphasis mine)
Is that a crack at Napoleon’s height?

@MrDibble

and the French are better for having gone through it.

For one, they don’t have anything like this to deal with!

@susan

Note rarely fatal. I was threatened with this as a queer teen in the South-ish US.

That’s terrible, and I am very sorry to hear that. Homophobia is a terrible thing.