Word: titos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the barkers were having a picnic. It was as if Barnum & Bailey had come to the Balkans. Under the big Red top the Soviet Bear was calling the acts. In the spotlight the Cominform, nine-headed dog of the Kremlin, was beating up on Tito, Yugoslavia's own ringmaster. And the Communist puppets clapped like...
...Cominform communique charged Tito and three of his Communist ministers with the deadly sins of "nationalism" and "Trotzkyism." The offending ministers specifically named were Vice Premier Edvard Kardelj, Minister for Montenegro Milovan Djilas and Interior (police) Minister Alexander Rankovic...
...real trouble seemed to be that Tito & Co. had been guilty of not always following the line from Moscow. Said the communique: "The Cominform finds that the leadership of Yugoslav Communists creates a hateful policy in relation to Soviet Russia and the All-Communist Union of Bolsheviks . . . They identify the policy of Soviet Russia with that of imperialist [Western] powers and they treat Soviet Russia in the same manner as they treat the bourgeois states . . . The Cominform condemns these anti-Soviet conceptions...
...what was even worse, Tito's secret police had been pushing Soviet representatives in Belgrade around...
...Tito might save himself by recanting and promising to be a good boy henceforth. Otherwise Yugoslav Communists had stern Cominform instructions to "change the Communist leaders in Yugoslavia." For Communists of Tito's position, such changes usually meant exile in haste, prison, or a firing squad...