- Belgrade declaration
Since
1948 there was a sincere rift in the relationships between theUSSR and the SFR Yugoslavia as Yugoslav leaderJosip Broz Tito established a socialist regime disregardingStalin . After Stalin's death in1953 , Tito had to choose between a more western approach to reforms or an agreement with new soviet leaderNikita Khrushchev .Tito tried to reconcile with the Soviet Union, inviting Khrushchev to
Belgrade in1955 . This meeting resulted in the Belgrade declaration ending theInformbiro , granting other socialist countries the right to interpretMarxism in a different way, and ensured equal relationships amongst allsatellite states and the Soviet Union.But the limits of this agreement became evident after the Soviet intervened in
Hungary in October1956 ; this was followed by a new Soviet campaign against Tito, which held the Yugoslavian government responsible for the Hungarian insurrection. Soviet-Yugoslav relationships went through similar cool periods in the 1960s (after the violent ending of thePrague Spring ) and thereafter.
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