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Some Washington officials believe--nay, hope--that the purges indicate that Milosevic is teetering.
Like an old party boss--and he is an old party boss--Yeltsin purges his administration regularly.
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.
The evidence is a spate of recent purges of government leaders in the army, air force, and intelligence service.
(Admittedly, no party completely purges its rhetoric of terms like phallologocentric, however.)