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dated June 5, 1956: Tito hails Soviet policy

The Yugoslav President, Marshal Josip Broz Tito, said in Moscow on June 3 that the "daring and far-seeing" foreign policy of the Soviet Union's new collective leadership constituted a guarantee that Yugoslavia and the USSR would never again be divided as they were between 1948 and 1955. In a speech in Russian broadcast over Moscow Radio shortly after his arrival in the Soviet capital, he said Yugoslavia had remained confident throughout the break with the Soviet Union that "the time would come when everything that divided us would be overcome." He described the rift with the Cominform in 1948 as "something unbelievable logic for which the fault could be attributed neither to the Yugoslav nor the Soviet people. Thanks to the Leninist policy of the present Soviet Government, all that now belongs to the past." The visit to Belgrade of the Soviet leaders, Nikita Khrushchev and Nikolai Bulganin, the joint declaration issued at the close of the visit, and the far-seeing foreign policy of the USSR's collective leadership constituted a guarantee against "anything similar happening again between our two countries."

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