Dimitri unpacks one of the most consequential and murky events in the history of the Cold War: the 1948 split between Tito’s Yugoslavia and Stalin’s USSR.

Topics include: Tito “giddy with success”, tactical disagreements over Yugoslav activites in Albania and the Greek Civil War, the proposed “Balkan Federation” with Bulgaria, the establishment of the Cominform, the blowup in early 1948 over Yugoslav army deployments to Albania, escalating ideological charges from the Soviet Central Committee, Tito’s fateful refusal to accept Stalin’s criticism, the death of General Arso Jovanović on the Yugoslav-Romanian border, escalating charges of treason, spying, and murder from other eastern bloc countries, and an extended oral history of the Goli Otok concentration camp as told by one of its survivors, the pro-Soviet “ibeovci” Yugoslav Communist Vlado Dapčević.

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