Word: titoists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...secret Cominform organization meeting in a sanatorium near Wroclaw, Poland. At that meeting, Tito and his aides vigorously berated Gomulka for talking too much about a separate "Polish road to socialism." Barely a year later, Tito was the archrenegade of the Communist world. And before long, Gomulka, accused of Titoist tendencies, was stripped of his power as secretary-general of the Polish Communist Party and put under house arrest...
Just where escaped Major General Plaku fits in all this, the outside world could not know. But if, as is probable, he was a Titoist intriguer in Albania who fled because he feared he had been discovered, his appearance in Belgrade at this moment was a little embarrassing to his host. Tito was just getting ready to send his own Defense Minister to Russia, and hurriedly hustled Plaku out of sight...
...Betrayal. According to the story vouched for in Britain's Time & Tide by reputable Hungarians now in exile, Kadar conveyed to Rajk the promise of Party Boss Matyas Rakosi that, if he made a confession of Titoist tendencies in court, his life would be spared. Rajk confessed-only to be shot anyway. When Kadar protested the betrayal, Rakosi, who is credited with a macabre sense of humor, reportedly played back a tape recording of the conversations between Kadar and his executed friend, to show that it incriminated both. Some time later Kadar himself was arrested by Rakosi...
Unlike Czechoslovakia's Slansky, Hungary's Rajk and Bulgaria's Kostov, who went to the gallows after dutifully confessing their party errors, there was no great public show trial of the Polish "Titoist" Gomulka. One of the reasons for this was that the stubborn Gomulka could not be broken, stubbornly refused to make an abject confession. Fearing that some of his ad-lib remarks in court might involve others in their wartime duplicity, his Politburo comrades found reasons to delay Stalin's orders for a trial. They delayed the arrangements so long that Stalin died before...
...proclaiming Hungarian neutrality and denouncing the Warsaw Pact. He had to flee for his life. Being a Communist, and knowing that Communist vengeance extends to families, he gathered up ten other Hungarian political leaders and their families, including Julia Rajk, whose husband Laszlo Rajk had been executed as a Titoist in 1949. They all arrived at the back door of the Yugoslav embassy just in time. As Embassy Secretary Milovnov let them in,a Russian armored car screeched to a halt, and out popped a soldier who sprayed the doorway with his Tommy gun. Nagy & Co. got inside the door...