Cold War Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Cominform and the Tito–Stalin Split=== {{Main|Cominform|Tito–Stalin Split}} In September 1947, the Soviets created [[Cominform]] to impose orthodoxy within the international communist movement and tighten political control over Soviet [[Satellite state#Soviet Union|satellites]] through coordination of communist parties in the [[Eastern Bloc]].{{sfn|Gaddis|2005|p=32}} Cominform faced an embarrassing setback the following June, when the [[Tito–Stalin split]] obliged its members to expel Yugoslavia, which remained communist but adopted a [[Non-Aligned Movement|non-aligned]] position and began accepting financial aid from the United States.{{sfn|Papathanasiou|2017|p=66}} Besides Berlin, the status of the city of [[Trieste]] was at issue. Until the break between Tito and Stalin, the Western powers and the Eastern bloc faced each other uncompromisingly. In addition to capitalism and communism, Italians and Slovenes, monarchists and republicans as well as war winners and losers often faced each other irreconcilably. The neutral buffer state [[Free Territory of Trieste]], founded in 1947 with the United Nations, was split up and dissolved in 1954 and 1975, also because of the détente between the West and Tito.<ref>Christian Jennings "Flashpoint Trieste: The First Battle of the Cold War", (2017), pp. 244.</ref><ref>Karlo Ruzicic-Kessler "Togliatti, Tito and the Shadow of Moscow 1944/45–1948: Post-War Territorial Disputes and the Communist World", in ''Journal of European Integration History,'' (2014) vol 2.</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page