The Great Purge deliberately opened careers to the younger generation.

Evidence

That it was one of the main purposes of the Great Purge to open the careers to the younger generation has always been known. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1962

Categorization

• XREF: Relates to how purge-style institutional renewal operates — comparable to the way exclusionary systems reshape hierarchies, relevant to the bureaucracy-and-exclusion thread in the reader’s toolkit.