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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.
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.
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.
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.