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Next day Yugoslavia's burly Vice Premier Aleksander Rankovic took up where Tito had left off. Said he: "We are again hearing voices to the effect that we Yugoslavs are 'sitting on two seats,' that we are bowing and scraping before the imperialists in order to get some of their 'tainted goods.' How absurd that is! If we had such flexible spines, they would have bent in 1948 under the powerful pressure of the great propaganda machine turned on them by several countries." In an access of enthusiasm, the congress delegates broke into a song...
...Ljubljana marked the worst crisis in relations between Russia and Yugoslavia since Khrushchev's crow-eating visit to Belgrade in 1955 to apologize for Stalin's 1948 expulsion of Yugoslavia from "the camp of Socialism." This time Khrushchev himself was wroth, because the draft program which Tito and his colleagues prepared for their party congress blamed...
Russia as well as the U.S. for world tensions, even implied that Russia was guilty of "exploiting" her Communist allies. Even after Tito humbly changed his tune to something close to the Soviet line that all the world's troubles are caused by Western "imperialists," Khrushchev responded with what in the Communist world is a crushing insult-he refused to send a Russian delegation, only an observer, to the Yugoslav congress. Every other Soviet-bloc nation did likewise...
...after their walkout, the observers all returned to their seats, having read in advance the speech to be delivered by scholarly Edvard Kardelj, Tito's chief theoretician. To their dismay, Kardelj added some savage ad libs: "We cannot recognize anybody's right to decide what in our program is in the spirit of Marxism and what is not . . . We do not need any certificates on our Marxism-Leninism." Only the Pole joined in the applause. And Yugoslav trade union boss General Svetozar Vukmanovic-Tempo minced no words when asked who was interfering in Yugoslav affairs. "Who?" demanded General...
...Camp. For all the defiant oratory, the spectacle of the Yugoslav David facing down the Soviet Goliath no longer stirred the West as it had in 1948. This time Western observers were less likely to overlook the fact that in his last speech to the congress, Tito was careful to hold out an olive branch to Moscow: "We shall in future continue to try not to give any cause to anybody to reproach us with reason that we are weakening the international workers' movement...