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Trouble is, it's been a nasty century (two world wars, Holocaust, Communist purges), so if you look for who did the most to cause it, you'll end up with a monster.
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.
Like an old party boss--and he is an old party boss--Yeltsin purges his administration regularly.
Some Washington officials believe--nay, hope--that the purges indicate that Milosevic is teetering.
(Admittedly, no party completely purges its rhetoric of terms like phallologocentric, however.)