Posted on 07/18/2012 7:09:07 AM PDT by C19fan
When Russian leader Josef Stalin died, on March 5 in 1953, a letter was found in his office that had been written by Yugoslavian leader Josip Broz Tito. The two leaders were bitter enemies, after Tito had used World War II as an opportunity to spark a revolution and lead Yugoslavia to independence from Soviet influence. A combination of pride, fear and jealousy had spurred Stalin to attempt to have Tito killed - and no less than 22 assassination attempts had been made in the years after the war.
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Thanks Perdogg. Bless him, then. :') The nutjob dictator who ran Albania for decades (and built an Iron Curtain along its border with Yugoslavia) admired Stalin, but disliked Tito and Khruschev. K is often fingered as Stalin's killer, but as Stalin probably murdered Lenin, then proceeded to finish off Lenin's entire 1921 cabinet (every last one of them either vanished or were executed or murdered), I don't see that there's any future cold case file TV segments coming about this. :') |
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