POLITICAL TRENDS IN THE SOVIET SATELLITES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00937A000400020016-9
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• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 8, 1999
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: October 10, 1955
• Content Type: MEMO

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CENTRAL IITTELLIGE N C E AGEITCY
OFFICE OF NATICNAL ESTIMATES
10 October 1955
INTERNAL DI STRIBUTIaiT ONL???
STAFF MEMORANDUM No, 71.-55
SUBJECT: Political trends in the Soviet Satellites
Introductan
1e The expulsion of the Yugoslav party from the Cominforri in 1948
first made clear that a Satellite party could be infected with national
sentiment. The basic causes for the breach were Soviet refusal to supporth
Belgrade's ambitious schemes of industrialization.. Soviet veto of the pro-
posed federation of Bulgaria with Yugoslavia, and the Soviet effort to es-
tablish covert supervision over the Yugoslav party. In other words, the
controlling elements among the Yugoslav Comruniste, when confronted with a
direct conflict between Yugoslav national interests and the solidarity of
international Communism under Moscow's control, opted for national interest,
2. There are many respects in which the Yugoslav situation was
unique. Among all the east European parties, only the Yugoslav and the
Albanian had fought their way into power through the development of parti-
san forces; and the Albanian party was, in some respects, a creation of the
Yugoslav. There has accumulated since 1948 certain evidence that *nationu1ista
or potentially "nationalist" factions exist in many, if not all, of the
Satellite parties, The following paragraphs will discuss the evidence for
the existence of these nationalist factions in the Satellite parties.
Thereafter the paper will present for consideration the ways in which these
nationalist factions tend to conflict with opposing Moscovite factions,
and the possible significance of the nationalist factions for future Soviet
policy.
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