ABSTRACT
In 1920, Lenin was preparing a document for the Communist International Congress, On the National and Colonial Question. The criticism of Lenin's thesis indicates that, as early as 1920, Stalin had a concept of a future Soviet Germany, a Soviet Finland, a Soviet Hungary. This chapter describes the open break between Tito and Stalin. This open break is as significant for our understanding of the Communist International, or the Cominform, as that famous unhealing fistula was for gastro-intestinal observation. The Tito forces participated in the final liberation of Yugoslavia, functioning as a kind of junior ally to the Soviet army. In 1944, a Yugoslav brigade, trained in Russia, came equipped with uniforms with royal Yugoslav emblems; only after Tito protested were the emblems removed. The chapter examines the relations between Stalin and Tito during the critical period.
