Letter to the CC of the CPY, May 22, 1948

Source: Tom 18

To the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia

The CC of the VKP(b) considers that the leaders of the Yugoslav Communist Party, with their letters of May 17 and 20, are taking a new step along the path of aggravating the grossest errors of principle, the harm and danger of which were pointed out by the CC of the VKP(b) in its letter of May 4, 1948.

Comrades Tito and Kardelj write that they feel "so unequal that we cannot agree to have this question examined at a session of the Cominform." The CC of the VKP(b) considers that there is not a word of truth in this assertion. In the Information Bureau of the nine communist parties there is not and cannot be any inequality for the Yugoslav Communist Party.

It is one of two things: either the Politburo of the CC CPY recognizes the seriousness of the errors it has committed but, wishing to conceal this from the Communist Party of Yugoslavia and to mislead it, fabricates stories about the absence of these errors; or the Politburo of the CC CPY truly does not understand that its errors lead it away from Marxism-Leninism. In the latter case, one must acknowledge that the ignorance of Marxism-Leninism among the members of the Politburo of the CC CPY is too great.

Regardless of whether representatives of the CC CPY come or do not come, the CC of the VKP(b) insists on the examination of the question of the situation in the Yugoslav Communist Party at the next session of the Information Bureau.

By authority of the CC of the VKP(b)

V. Molotov

I. Stalin

May 22, 1948, Moscow