Word: yugoslavic
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...Cominform's third meeting. The first, in September 1947, exhorted world Communism to fight the Marshall Plan; the second, in June 1948, disclosed that Tito was a Titoist. From 1949's meeting emerged a call for the "active fight of the revolutionary elements inside of the Yugoslav Communist Party as well as outside." This was taken to mean a campaign to break Tito by all means short of formal war. Mikhail Suslov, the highest Soviet official to attend (he is a member of the Orgburo, next echelon below the Politburo), was reported by returning Cominform delegates to have...
...Cominform issued its statement on the sixth anniversary of the founding of Tito's regime. In Belgrade that day, Tito and his lieutenants celebrated gaily and the last straw of Soviet-Yugoslav friendship snapped: Joseph Stalin's portraits, which had been publicly displayed throughout Yugoslavia even after the break with Moscow, disappeared...
Meanwhile, at Sarajevo, the minaret-studded Bosnian town where in 1914 Austria's Archduke Francis Ferdinand was assassinated, Tito was having his own show. The defendants in the dock were accused of spying for Soviet Russia, collaborating with prewar Yugoslav fascists and plotting to overthrow the Tito regime...
Rumors were making the rounds last week that Moscow had completed plans to overthrow Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito. The coup d'etat, so the story ran, would start with a Moscow-engineered revolt in Belgrade. Tito would be liquidated. Satellite parachutists would descend on the Yugoslav capital; mechanized troops would roll across the frontier, presumably from Hungary, where by latest reports the Russians had five divisions (including two armored), were busily constructing airstrips. The rumors differed only on the timing of the coup: some said it was due this month, others next spring...
...Lake Success, Yugoslav Deputy Foreign Minister Ales Bebler blandly told reporters that his government knew all about the plot. Said he: "The situation is well in hand...