Word: yugoslavs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pulling a manuscript from one pocket and glasses from another, he planted his feet widely and started reading in his loud, cocky miner's voice. "Dear Comrade Tito . . . and leaders of the Yugoslav Communist League," he bawled. Instantly, Tito's handsome features froze...
Obviously, in his first hour on Yugoslav soil, Khrushchev had badly overreached himself. Anxious lest any Westerners get the wrong ideas. Yugoslav officials spent the next two days buttonholing newsmen to announce how outraged, how embarrassed, how annoyed they were at what Khrushchev proposed...
...have no desire for ideological ties with the Soviet Union any more than we want ideological ties with the U.S.," said one official. Nor was any Yugoslav pleased by Khrushchev's transparent ruse of making Beria the scapegoat. Said a Tito official: "You can't treat history like a detective story. It's an insult to the Yugoslav people to think they would swallow this...
...before I had scanned the whole letter, he asked, 'When shall we have an answer?' I replied tersely, 'We shall consider the letter.' The meeting was at an end." Tito knew that he had one power advantage that no other satellite had: a big Yugoslav army loyal to him, not Moscow...
Retorted the Kremlin: "Your tone can only be described as unboundedly pretentious. Yugoslav comrades do not accept criticism in Marxist manner but in a bourgeois manner...