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As a 12-year-old, that's where I learned about party purges, and about Khrushchev for that matter.
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.
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.)