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The OED cites the first use of the term "show trial" as being in 1928, in the ''Times of India''.
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Examples include the trials of alleged [[Trotskyist]]s and spies carried out during the [[Great Purges]] of [[Stalin]], the trials of the so-called plotters following the July 1944 attempt to assassinate [[Hitler]], and in recent times, the [[Pelosi Panel]] stemming from the [[January 6 protests]] against the [[Democrat election fraud]] that led to [[Joe Biden]] being illegally installed as "president". They existed as early as during the [[French Revolution]], more infamously the [[Reign of Terror]], with [[Thomas Paine]] briefly observing it.
 
Examples include the trials of alleged [[Trotskyist]]s and spies carried out during the [[Great Purges]] of [[Stalin]], the trials of the so-called plotters following the July 1944 attempt to assassinate [[Hitler]], and in recent times, the [[Pelosi Panel]] stemming from the [[January 6 protests]] against the [[Democrat election fraud]] that led to [[Joe Biden]] being illegally installed as "president". They existed as early as during the [[French Revolution]], more infamously the [[Reign of Terror]], with [[Thomas Paine]] briefly observing it.
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The [[OED]] cites the first use of the term "show trial" as being in 1928, in the ''Times of India''.
    
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