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The evidence is a spate of recent purges of government leaders in the army, air force, and intelligence service.
Like an old party boss--and he is an old party boss--Yeltsin purges his administration regularly.
The WP also runs an item on the purges, saying that they have rattled Montenegro (adjacent to Serbia), which fears a crackdown from Belgrade.
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.