Tito told Stalin to go to hell. But only after he killed a boatload of Germans. Stalin decided to send his exhausted Red Army elsewhere.
“Tito told Stalin to go to hell.”
Stalin absolutely did not want to tangle with Tito’s Partisans, whom the Germans had never tamed.
Stalin didn’t want to take on the Finns again either.
Finland and Yugoslavia both enjoyed “special relationships” with Russia post war.