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...rivalry. Zhdanov and his followers seem to have sold Stalin on a Europe First policy that brought the tide of Soviet power to its maximum westward penetration: Czechoslovakia, seized in a Communist Putsch in February 1948. But in their year of victory the Zhdanovites suffered two reverses: Tito defected, the airlift saved Berlin...
...habitual doodler who doodled wolves, girls, castles and the word "Lenin" on paper pads during conferences and interviews, Stalin gave the impression of impassive calm. But a Tito aide once saw him angry: "He trembled with rage, he shouted, his features distorted, he sharply motioned with his hand and poured invective into the face of his secretary who was trembling and paling as if struck by heart failure." Wrote Biographer Boris Souvarine: "This repulsive character . . . cunning, crafty, treacherous but also brutal, violent, implacable ..." Said Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy, who met Stalin at the Teheran conference: "Most of us, before...
...wore a glove on his left hand. Two toes of his left foot were grown together. He was stocky, but walked with the muffled ease of a polar bear erect, and, without being athletic, looked supple and active. At a Kremlin party in 1946, drinking Brüderschaft with Tito, he shouted: "There's still strength in me," and slipping his hands under bulky Tito's armpits, lifted him off the floor three times to the beat of a Russian folk melody on the phonograph...
...complain," he told Chief of Staff Vassilevsky, when hard-pressed generals were calling for help at Stalingrad, "don't promise them any reserves. Don't give them a single battalion from the Moscow front." On a Kremlin visit shortly before the war's end, Tito heard Stalin call up Marshal Malinovsky whose army had been halted. "You're asleep there, asleep!" Stalin shouted. "You say you haven't tank divisions. My grandma would know how to fight with tanks. It's time you moved. Do you understand...
...loan is the third granted to Tito by the World Bank (the first, $2,700,000 in U.S. dollars in 1949; the second, $28 million in European currencies in 1950) since he broke with Moscow and won the wary support of the West. Tito's regime has also received $297 million in loans and grants plus unrevealed millions in military aid from the U.S. in the past three years...