Word: tito
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...Cominform issued its statement on the sixth anniversary of the founding of Tito's regime. In Belgrade that day, Tito and his lieutenants celebrated gaily and the last straw of Soviet-Yugoslav friendship snapped: Joseph Stalin's portraits, which had been publicly displayed throughout Yugoslavia even after the break with Moscow, disappeared...
Meanwhile, at Sarajevo, the minaret-studded Bosnian town where in 1914 Austria's Archduke Francis Ferdinand was assassinated, Tito was having his own show. The defendants in the dock were accused of spying for Soviet Russia, collaborating with prewar Yugoslav fascists and plotting to overthrow the Tito regime...
...star emblem with hammer & sickle, and under the flag was the portrait of the all-powerful leader. But the face of the leader seemed to have changed: it was not the slyly benign mask of Joseph Stalin; it was the square, rather brutal face of Josip Broz Tito...
Only last September, Stalin's faithful satellite Hungarians had tried (and hanged) Interior Minister Laszlo Rajk on charges of conspiring with Tito to overthrow the Hungarian government and plotting war against Soviet Russia; Bulgaria last week was preparing to try former Deputy Premier Traicho Rostov on charges of conspiring with Tito to overthrow the Bulgarian government and sabotaging the interests of Soviet Russia...
...short. Russian Orthodox Priest Vladislav Nekliudov, chief among the accused, had hanged himself with a bedsheet in his cell. One Alexander Krasilnikov, a former colonel in the Czarist army, was said by the court to be too ill to stand trial. Soviet, Hungarian and Bulgarian newspapers promptly cried that Tito had deliberately eliminated the two defendants, that the trial was fixed. To refute these charges, the Yugoslavs invited reporters to the bedside of ailing defendant Krasilnikov, who showed no evidence that Tito's police had maltreated him. Said he contentedly: "I was never a big shot...