(2 of 2)
Friends & Enemies. Between the gunshots at Belje last week, a student of Belgrade-Moscow relations imagined he heard Khrushchev saying to Tito: "All right. We admitted we were wrong about you. We came down here and apologized. We got others to apologize and resume good relations. We had your old enemy Rakosi kicked out of the Hungarian Party and Chervenkov out of the Bulgarian. Your pal Gomulka was rehabilitated in Poland, Rajk in Hungary and Kostov in Bulgaria. We dissolved the Cominform. We had the parts of the Slansky trial that reflected on you struck from the record. We paid off for the trade damage the Cominform blockade did to you and got the satellites to do the same. We don't feel obliged to do anything more. And, by the way, in the U.S.S.R. destalinization is over. Now we all get back to the work of building Communism."
A pretty good shot himself, Tito was not likely to underrate Khrushchev at his favorite sport.