COMINFORMIST ACTIVITY INSIDE YUGOSLAVIA

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 16, 1998
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: February 18, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUBJECT Cominformist ActiVrty'riuside izgoslavta
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REPORT NO.
The Cominform has stepped-up its clandestine activities within Yugoslavia
during recent weeks. This activity takes form in the spreading of propaganda
and the organization of various cells,
2. Illegal propaganda leaflets are found daily in the factories at Celje and
Maribor. The following is the content of one such Cominform leaflet:
"Because of the bloody terror of Titofa group, the duties of the
majority of the KPJ members .become very difficult and complicated
since the leading party circles are carrying on a policy of
treason to the very end. Titofs faction is becoming more ruthless:.
The mightiest weapon in the fight against this treason among the
leaders, in the profound studying of Mari, Engels, Lenin and
Stalin on the part of the KPJ members. Subversive, uncompromising
and aggressive application of thia learning can be carried Into
practice only under a strong determination to fight this cleverly
masked policy of traitors which must be exposed at every step, at
every occasion, and every day.
"Because of this, the first and basic order to all members of the
KPJ is as follows: do everything in your power so that the greatest
number possible of Communists; receives and reads the articles which
ideologically unmask the treason of Tito 's group in matters of all
concrete problem.
"It ie evident that very little can be done without a successful
solution of the problem of procuring, multiplying and spreading
of this reading material. That is why members of the KPJ must
display great initative and resourcefulness in this regard as
they have done before under illegal circumstances in pre-war
Yugoslavia and in the hour of the national struggle for Liberation.
In this new struggle the word "material" assumes the sane imp.
partance it had before. iMaterial' again beoomes a precious means
(weapon) because it is rare (there is not such of it). We have to
do our utmost to provide More Imateria17.
"Cur work, however, should be easier in this respect than before.
Now we have mere paper, more radios, more satmeographs and more
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people who can and wish to write, The only thing necessary is or-
ganization. All that la necessary is a copy of the Informbiro
organ For Permanent Peace and Pea ilea Deutocradyi en issue ce
Nova po- ew Bat e one ohure Under e Flag of Inter-
nationalism, ei cetera and members of e wi ve had emcees
to the rightkind of informative material. -
"Even if Rankovicle gang succeeds in teasporarily preventing the pro-
curement of printed matter, they cannot prevent the people from
listening to radio broadcaate fromM000w and other peoples
democracies, which continuously transmit large numbers of ideological
texts. Remember the following radio transmissions schedule for
Yugoslavia (the Yugoslav hour):
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18,3o
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"That is why it is imperative to develop a listening 1:14 aerviel which
will receive the news and commentaries for immediate distribution,
Our actioniste will not find this work difficult as they have had much
experience from the heroic struggle of our party before the war and
during the battles for liberations
"Throughout the country it is neceseary - with more enthussiasm than
ever before - to establish cells and groups and to intensify the
work, We should strive towards having these groups and circles well
organized in every community, every district and every. plant. This
is a great talk for all the members of the KF.1 loyal to the interests
of the working class and the proletarian internationalism united in
an anti-imperialistic front with the USSR at the head and its teacher
and leader of all progressive mankind - the great Stalin.
"Let us develop as much initiative and enthusiasm as possible in this
-work. Let us firmly and with determination undertake this work with
the motto: 'Everything for a quick victory of the Lenin-Inter-
nationalist line in the NPZe4
3. Meanwhile, within Tito's Communist Party it becomes increasingly clear that
the break with the Cominform is definite and final. Boris Kraigher is re-
ported to believe that the cella have now been purged of all "undesirable
Cominform elements". The slogans of the Party line as given for use at maws
meetings read an follows:
"It should be explained to the Slovene people in carefully worded
terms that the days are gone when the Komintern (Cominform) had a
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monopoly over the Communist parties and when overnight they would
dissolve the central committees and replace them according to
their choice. The Comouniat Party of Yegoslevie is not an accoeplice
*mother it be in Indonesia or in some other coloey where oolonia1
methods are used. Gomm are the days of internetional solidarity
of the proletarians, gone are the days of the leading role of the
Bolshevik parey of the Soviet Union, because something now has been
born, i.e. Tito's faction which will take over the leading role in
the world's workers novement. The Bolshevik party together with
other Commmnist parties in Bulgaria, Huneary, Rumania, Czechoslovakia,
Poland and Albania has taken on the ieperialistio line, aiming to
enslave Yugoslavia and to deprive her of her independence. We are
not White Russia or the Ukraine to be treated in this way."
Kraigher is reported to. have also stated that "..meanwhile, while we shed
blood Dimitrov, Rakosi, Gottwald, Mores, Togliatti and many others set
on the other side of the Urals, enjoying themselves while they waited for
Soviet tanks to carry them to authority. We have eon back our territory
with our own hands, which is swathing they cannot claim for themselves -
and for which they envy us. We know that the Cominform cligas offers our
true Yugoslays abroad money, women and other means to lure these true
Party followers of ours to sign with the Cominform."
Kraigher expresses himself in a completely different tone with reference
to the Western ?mere and says that, according to Djilase Yugoslavia well
-enter into close commercial ties with the West, because only in that way
can the Five-Year Plan be realized. These commercial ties will be of an
economic nature only and will contribute towards carrying out in Yugoslavia
a socialist economic order,
6. Ccmfusion is evident in the Yugoelav Communist Partys For example, in-
structions were issued forbidding "reactionary" celebration of Christmas;
no trees were to be cut or sold, and at first, the holiday WAS not to be
celebrated; the workday schedule was to be lengthened by the udarnik method
(shock work) and sectional meetings were to be called. Then an order
appeared for a Christmas day celebration which would honor "Dedek Nraz"
(Grandfather Frost) which the Soviet Union has been celebrating for the
past ten years. "Grandfather Frost" was intended to replace thesuperstitdons
of the Catholic church". Food rations were to be increased for this holiday
and every effort was to be made to achieve a great public response. When
Christmas day arrived, however, it was discovered by the authorities that
great numbers of Christmas trees appeared on the markets and much enthusiasm
was noticed on the part of the people, so much so that the authorities were
tearful that the Catholics would take advantage of the holiday to celebrate
according to their custom. They conesquently issued an order once more
calling for as little activity as possible during the holiday.
7. In the political field, the Yugoslav Communist is never quite sure whether
or not he should sing the praises of "the great Stalin" or to complain about
the injustices dons to his comrades by Titols YUgoolavs. The Yugoelav not
on an official level can be sure only of criticizing the satellites
and of permitting only the leaders to criticize the Soviets.
8. New court trials were held an &result of certain persons receiving the
Matjazev Glas from abroad. Pavia Be Comolli, a clerk at the Ministry for
Public Works was sentenced to 12 years at hard labor; Jose Komljanec and
Cdster Janko received steilor sentences. A Dr. Bartol received five years
at hard labor. New trials are being prepared for the Lajovic group and the
Liberal Party supporters in Ljubljana, on charges of spreading anti-Communist
propaganda and having illegal radio transmitters in their possession:, .
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