THE EAST BLOC
MEMO
8/23/48

To: Central Committee,
Communist Party of Yugoslavia
From: The Central Committee, All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, Moscow
Subject: The Pretentious Marshal Tito

"The Yugoslav leaders have gone a step further in aggravating their crude mistakes of principle ... The Yugoslavs are asking for a privileged position ... Comrades Tito and Edvard Kardel assure us with words. They will show us with deeds that they will remain true to the Soviet Union ... We have no reason to believe these assurances ... By refusing to attend the Cominform meeting, they admitted their guilt and cut themselves off from the united socialist people's front."

Five weeks later, the Cominform formally denounced Tito and expelled him from the party.