BASIC DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DJILAS AND TITO

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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 1, 2003
• Sequence Number: 253
• Publication Date: March 3, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

FORM NO. 51-4B
DEC 1951
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The r..ilovan :;Ji'a i'fal: 1:; ::ynutomatic of the changing mood in the
u: ?;, T.efti:;t circle, in f.-v,; of f;oscow. The official Yugoslav
n: cadcaste only truth the s:rr'!!ce of this conflict . UJilast criticism
o? the ha manner.: of i., Party ;comrades and of their attitude towards
no, Party :c:aen ,lui tl; en1 ::pcrt:.rnt incidents used to cover up the
iaau_ .. The der.zL1cn c;i' 1 = . ce sequence of the growing
:tic j?th c: core ct' thought among the Yugoslav
n... In :;o:cr_ rezp2ctS to tenets which,
.'r; .. }4c] U_ _. fr.+.,' . he re:^:.in, they :.d believed to be
T. eatee 111~?..,p: pe_ reports, this does not indicate
hcl:; t-, C, sire tc ,lair, the .orn'nform organization. The major
ul}1:: .. in the conflict arc the .-llouing:
111uvc:n '!jilss is the le.iier of a group of younger -Communists who were
;e;;t ,11;; ,?. 1_, t;:' their gove.n::,ent, and while living in .:estern countries,
;t,in:lards of Living with those in their
a;:1: c;;,;n; a;,.ll is the USSR and in Eastern Europe during the period
o! 1945 to '-,r4ma~Ytg,.i:.. Asia, ,nd tc a. oe?tnin degree also in }urope.,
8. The T1to.Communists tend to view theSoolAl Democratic Parties as
organizations of the past, and do not think'that??they have much chance to
improve their international situation-by dloser?contacts with these. -
Socialist groups. The British Labor Party especially the Bevanite Left-
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by him as highly desirt+ble. The Titoists certainly belong to that
school of an ;i.-5'as'l inl5t opposi#itmists. who..would, consider.an
insurrectionist movement against: the Kremlin as.most. undesirableigw
because- the, overthrow of. the Communist regime in .the. Kremlin would
lead to.~he destruction of the Communist, movements in Europe, and
engulf the. present.Yugosle.v.regime as well- Thus,.-despite the differences
be Moscow and Belgrade. on matters .o.f.domestic Communist policy,
the existence of a Communist Government in the Kremlin is considered as
neoeasary-for-the maintena.noe of.the Tito-regime.
7. i:or this reason, the Tito school -favors .the. theory-that the black features
of the Stalin regime can be aboltshed.step by step through-a number-of.
internal. reforms.. FNarthcmor9.; N.-Tito government. Ss. impressed by ?t$ e. - -
gtoady grevth.of the world Comarznist movement.. When. the Yugoslav-tfelmunists
broke.nw.ay in 1948., they, were not. too.well-informed.about the Comnauit.=
movements-outride east Europe, and were inclined to consider Communism in
1;~urope on the deoline. Since then, the victory of the Chinese Communists
has deeply. impressed them, and, like moat of.. their., comrades in other
countries, they gee a distinct difference between the Mao and the Stalin
regimes.. To keep 't".zmselves sorscuhsra--between th6.Moscow and Peiping
Governments i.` therefore the coursd which-theTitoists are-not likely to-?
sb'~kndo'i, because only-10. that-middle position can they hope to rearrangi
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