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dated April 19, 1956: Cominform dissolved

Mr. Anastas Mikoyan, Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister, announced in Moscow on April 17 that the Cominform had been dissolved. The Cominform (Communist Information Bureau) was set up at a secret meeting of Communist delegates from nine European nations in Poland on October 5, 1947. It was the successor body to the Comintern (Communist International), which was dissolved in 1943. At its second formal meeting in Rumania in June 1948 the Cominform expelled the Yugoslav Communist Party led by Marshal Tito, thus starting the long Moscow-Belgrade rift which lasted throughout the Stalin era. The resolution then adopted complained of the "anti-Soviet conception" of the Yugoslav Communist leaders. Since Stalin's death in 1953 the Yugoslavs have been reinstated in favour in the eyes of the Kremlin and other Soviet bloc States have moved to "normalise" relations with that country. The original Cominform linked the Communist Party of Russia with those of the East European States and of France and Italy, the two West European countries with the biggest Communist Party membership. The founder members were the Communist Parties of USSR, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Rumania, France and Italy. Albania and East Germany were not included. After describing the useful functions which the Cominform had fulfilled since its foundation, the official announcement gave reasons for the decision to dissolve the Cominform. The dissolution of the Cominform was welcomed in Belgrade. Yugoslav politicians have made no secret of the fact that they would like to see its end.

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