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...Stalin, or any man his equal extant, and his successors had, for their own safety, partially dismantled the policy system which had concentrated so much power in the old dictator's hands. But collectively they could make Stalinist noises, which could be read as a rebuke to Tito, and might be depended upon to strike fear in the breasts of restless satellite Communist leaders...
...addition to this crushing performance, Khrushchev and Malenkov met in Budapest with Communist leaders from Rumania, Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia for a "comradely exchange of opinion." Significantly missing from this poor man's Cominform was not only Tito, that sometimes welcome and sometimes unwelcome Communist, but also Poland's Gomulka...
...hair and Roman nose, remained aloof from this excitement. "It's too early," he warned his friends. During the afternoon he stood by impassively as the crowd, still orderly and unled, came finally to Parliament House. It was Communist Party Boss Erno Gero, just returned from a visit to Tito, who touched off the fuse. In a radio speech, Gero accused the people of "provocations." Surging toward Radio Budapest, the crowd demanded the right to be heard. The AVH guards began shooting...
Following Moscow's cue, the Chinese Reds put the blame for these deplorable tendencies on Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito. And when it came to pinpointing the nature of Tito's heresy, the Chinese Communists did not hesitate to make a charge that no Russian leader currently dares to make in public. "In our opinion," said the Central Committee, "Stalin's mistakes take second place to his achievements . . . [Tito] took up a wrong attitude when he set up so-called Stalinism, the Stalinist course and Stalinist elements as objects of attack . . . This can only lead...
Evidently, Red China's bosses had become convinced that further intramural quarreling is a luxury that the badly rent Communist world cannot afford. Whatever their motives, their attack came as a shattering surprise to Belgrade, where Tito had been counting on China as a major ally in his fight for "independent Communism." The Kremlin's hard-line Politburocrats have gathered pledges of support from all the satellites except Poland, and from the big Communist Parties of France and Italy, leaving Yugoslavia and Poland almost isolated in insisting on "separate ways to socialism." Nervously, Tito's henchmen considered...