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(Admittedly, no party completely purges its rhetoric of terms like phallologocentric, however.)
Some Washington officials believe--nay, hope--that the purges indicate that Milosevic is teetering.
As a 12-year-old, that's where I learned about party purges, and about Khrushchev for that matter.
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.
The evidence is a spate of recent purges of government leaders in the army, air force, and intelligence service.