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When Robeson visited Moscow during the anti-Jewish purges, Stalin released the Yiddish poet Itzak Feffer from a labor camp and had him cleaned up to see Robeson.
The WP also runs an item on the purges, saying that they have rattled Montenegro (adjacent to Serbia), which fears a crackdown from Belgrade.
Horrified by Stalin's purges, increasingly convinced that the Communists were literally the party of Satan and that "man without mysticism is a monster," in 1938 he broke with the party.
As a 12-year-old, that's where I learned about party purges, and about Khrushchev for that matter.
The evidence is a spate of recent purges of government leaders in the army, air force, and intelligence service.