YUGOSLAV LEADER CHARGES SOVIET BETRAYAL: ITALIAN COMMUNISTS SEE COMINFORM SLANDERS

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• Publication Date: April 5, 1950
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YUGOSLAV LEADER CHARGES SOVIET BETRAYAL;
ITALIAN COMMUNISTS SEE "COMINF0RM SLANDERS"
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Moshe Pijade, Deputy Premier of Yugoslavia, received me in his office
and related to me the background of the Soviet-Yugoslav dispute. He accused
the Kremlin administrators of betraying the,principNes of socialism and of
attempting to swallow the small Communist countries.
He stated, "The Soviet officials are no longer acting like officials of
a socialist state but are following a chauvinistic policy with Pan-Russian
rather internationalistic ideals. They.~Lre trying to convince others that a
proletarian revolutic:i in any country ispossible only with the assistance
of the bayonets of the Red Army. This?'claim is completely contrary to Marxism."
Later, while wandering about the city, I met 15 Italian Communists who had
come to Belgrade against the orders of the Italian Communist Party. They said
they-had come to learn for themselves the truth of Moscow's claims that Yugo-
slavia had sold herself to capitalism and fascism. They told me that they
were convinced that such allegations were completely unfouided and that they
would expose the Cominform's slanders when they returned to Italy. A large
group of French Communists is also touring Yugoslavia. Moreover, a young
German Communist named Wolfgang Leonbardt, who was an announcer on the Moscow
radio during the war, is now broadcasting pro-Yugoslav propaganda to German
Communists over the Belgrade radio.
Yugoslav leaders with whom .1 talked ridiculed the charge that tue movement
in their country was a "Fifth International" and said that Yugoslavia simply
desired to be an independent country. The idea of a free Communism has neces-
sarily extended beyond the borders of Yugoslavia and constitutes a serious
threat to Soviet expansion, Soviet domination in Eastern Europe, and even
Soviet influence in Communist China. However, it would be foolish to think
that this movement will orient itself toward the West. The rank-and-file
Communists in Belgrade are 100-percent loyal to Marxist-Leninist doctrines.
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They favor the establishment of a proletarian dictatorship in every country
by force and are convinced of the need for a political police organization
with authority to arrest anyone who works for the re-establishment of a non-
Communist regime. Similarly, they believe that no anti-Communist newspaper
should be allowed to exist.
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