expropriate

They had abolished the market-economy and had expropriated the bourgeoisie; they also had gained complete control over the government.
N’avaient-ils pas aboli l’économie de marché, dépossédé la bourgeoisie, mis la main sur le gouvernement ?
Through February 1997, the government had expropriated nearly 4,500,000 hectares of land, an area larger than the territory of Belgium.
En février 1997, le gouvernement a exproprié près de 4 500 000 hectares de terre, superficie supérieure au territoire de la Belgique.
Trotskyism was the only tendency to systematically combat Stalinism, which had expropriated the October Revolution of 1917, liquidating the rule of the soviets and replacing it with a totalitarian and bureaucratic regime.
Le trotskisme a été le seul courant qui s’est battu systématiquement contre le stalinisme qui avait exproprié la révolution d’Octobre de 1917, en liquidant le régime des soviets et en le remplaçant par un régime totalitaire et bureaucratique.
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