He purged his competition. Purged, the lawyer said. Like with a laxative. To purify oneself and the struggle of the anarchists like me, as well as the nationalists, the royalists, the Trotskyites, the insufficiently ideological anticolonialists. You know why? Too many sides. He needed to have only two sides, so that the people would understand—you were for or against the French. And those against had better agree that the only way was the communist way.
