[inglor_cz]

Vicious sectarianism is pretty frequent in history and it can infect secular movements too.

Being a "Trotskyist" or a "Titoist" was a de facto capital offence at various points of the Stalinist era. Or being labeled as such, regardless of your true status.

[foobarian]

Heh Titoist was bad in USSR? But Tito was the best!

[smcl]

Stalin very publicly turned against Tito when it became obvious he couldn't be pushed around easily (wouldn't agree to extremely unfavourable trade deals, wasn't happy with the idea of joint-investments in Yugoslav industry that would've effectively turned them over to the USSR, and more). This ultimately lead to Stalin and the USSR-aligned countries denouncing him, despite originally being very close with newly socialist Yugoslavia. I think this was a really tough one for Tito - he'd spent time in Russia after the revolution, sought out Soviet help during war (without really receiving any) but for a while truly believed the USSR could've spearheaded a global socialist movement.

[nabla9]

Stalin attempted to assassinate Tito.

Tito and Stalin didn't see eye-to-eye. There was complete split after the WWII. Soviets blockaded Yugoslavia and Yugoslavia was included in Truman's Mutual Defense Assistance Program and received military aid.

[AutumnCurtain]

The reply letter from Tito following an assassination attempt from Stalin is one of the great political correspondences of the era: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tito%E2%80%93Stalin_split?wpro...

[jjtheblunt]

That link seems to not reference what you referenced?

Is the quote in this section?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josip_Broz_Tito#Tito%E2%80%93S...

[inglor_cz]

I think he meant this quote:

"Stop sending people to kill me. We've already captured five of them, one of them with a bomb and another with a rifle. [...] If you don't stop sending killers, I'll send one to Moscow, and I won't have to send a second."

[AutumnCurtain]

That's the one, thanks

[jjtheblunt]

which is a very awesome quote and resolve at the same time

[vkou]

Tito and Stalin split in a big way. When Europe split NATO-Warsaw, Yugoslavia headed off in its own direction - non-aligned.