Începutul schismei sovieto-iugoslave surprins de ambasadorul român la Belgrad, Teodor Rudenko, 1948
The beginning of the Soviet–Yugoslav split as seen by the Romanian ambassador in Belgrade, Teodor Rudenko, 1948

Summary/Abstract: The contradictions between the Soviet and Yugoslav leadership, which first emerged during the Trieste crisis (May-June 1945), reached a critical point in the spring of 1948. Although Yugoslavia, after the end of the World War II, resolutely turned to implementation of deep economic and political reforms in accordance with Communist doctrine, the overly independent and ambitious Josip Broz Tito did not let Moscow control properly over the situation in his country. And in this sense he did not correspond himself very much to I.V. Stalin's ideas about the leader of a country which was building socialism in accordance with the general principles of the World Communist movement. In May, Tito rejected the demand of the Soviet leadership to attend a new meeting of the Cominform bureau, and the meeting held at the end of June in Bucharest without the participation of the Yugoslav delegation adopted a resolution containing sharp accusations of nationalism against the leaders of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia. An anti-Yugoslav campaign was launched within the framework of the World Communist Movement. It involved all the Communist parties of the Soviet sphere of influence, by this time already possessing full power in their states. As concerns Yugoslavia, the consolidation of Tito regime was accompanied by harsh measures against those communists who called on their leadership to submit themselves to the dictate of Moscow.The extremely tense domestic political atmosphere in Belgrade at the end of the summer of 1948 is reflected in the description of the Romanian ambassador to Yugoslavia, Bessarabia-born Teodor Rudenko, who acted as an informant for the Soviet leadership.

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