[Zack Nguyen]

As I understand it, Slobodan Milosevic, the Serb leader, was a Communist when Yugoslavia was a Soviet satellite.

[Lion in Winter]

Yeah, he was a commie but so was the leaders of Croatia and Bosnia at the time....

[montyspython]

When was Yugoslavia a Soviet satellite?

[Banat]

Yugoslavia broke off its relations with the USSR in June 1948 (see: Informbiro). Yugoslavia had never, ever, been a Soviet satellite. Tito's refusal(s) to submit to Stalin were the reason the Yugoslav Communist Party was kicked out of the Cominform, and some historians argue that, had Yugoslavia bordered the USSR, Stalin would've intervened militarily.

Tito dealt with the Stalinists in Yugoslavia by sending them to Goli Otok ("Barren Island").