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Yugoslavia: Diminished Tito's stature as an independent, since when the chips were down he was prepared to justify Soviet tanks in Budapest...
...Budapest raged about them, Nagy's party found asylum with the Yugoslavs. In these 19 days, while the Russians cruelly repressed but could not crush the Hungarian rebellion, another battle was going on throughout the Communist world: a frantic attempt to fasten the guilt for the Hungarian revolt. Tito got caught in the crossfire. Pravda accused him of being an accomplice of the "counterrevolutionary" Nagy, and hinted that Tito's talk of "many roads to' socialism" underlay all the trouble. Tito, in turn, indignantly blamed Hungary on Moscow's failure to purge all the old "Stalinists...
Last week Pravda answered Tito-in surprisingly moderate terms for an issue so grave: "The attempt at dividing the Communist Parties into Stalinist and non-Stalinist . . . can only cause harm to the Communist movement." This was a quarrel inside the Communist camp: Tito was not being expelled, nor was he asking to leave...
...Said Tito: "It is our tragedy, the tragedy of us all together, that a terrible blow has been dealt to socialism. It is compromised." Tito meant that he, too, through his dickerings with Moscow, had been compromised...
Still playing an inside game in world Communism, Tito had hopes that the anti-Stalinists in the Kremlin will eventually triumph, though the wounded tone of his speech indicated that the Stalinist gang which is "acting so destructively" is now dominant in Russia, and the result will be "difficult times ahead." He mentioned no names, but Russian specialists identify the old guard as dominated by Molotov, Kaganovich and Mikhail Suslov...