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Inside Game. The Communist play of his speech had a significance of its own. Both the Hungarian radio and Polish press carried excerpts from it. Moscow did not, nor did the Bulgarian, Rumanian or Czechoslovak radios. The Italian Communist press featured it; the French Communist press attacked it. This unusual pattern was an indication of where the tough line was in control, and where it was not.
Still playing an inside game in world Communism, Tito had hopes that the anti-Stalinists in the Kremlin will eventually triumph, though the wounded tone of his speech indicated that the Stalinist gang which is "acting so destructively" is now dominant in Russia, and the result will be "difficult times ahead." He mentioned no names, but Russian specialists identify the old guard as dominated by Molotov, Kaganovich and Mikhail Suslov.