V.M. Molotov

Albert Resis intro. & ed., Molotov Remembers: Inside Kremlin
Politics, Conversations with Felix Chuev (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1993), pp.
83-4.

Here is what Molotov of "Molotov cocktail" fame had to say about Yugoslavia three times in the
1970s:

"In 1953-1954 I spoke out [against reconciliation with Tito's] Yugoslavia
at the Politburo. No one supported me, neither Malenkov nor even
Kaganovich, though he was a Stalinist! Khruschev was not alone. There were
hundreds and thousands like him, otherwise on his own he would not have
gotten very far. He simply pandered to the state of mind of the people.
But where did that lead? Even now there are lots of Khruschevs. . . 

"Tito is now [1970s at three different talks--ed.] in a difficult
situation. His republic is going under, and he will have to grab onto the
USSR for dear life. Then we shall be able to deal with him more firmly.

"There are many people worse than Tito.

"Nationalism is causing him to howl in pain, yet he himself is a
nationalist, and that is his main defect as a communist. He is a
nationalist, that is, he is infected with the bourgeois spirit. He is now
cursing and criticizing his own people for nationalism. This means that
the Yugoslav multinational state is breaking up along national lines. It
is composed of Serbs, Croatians, Slovenes, and so forth.

"When Tito visited us for the first time, I liked his appearance. We
didn't know everything about him at the time. . . .

"Tito is not an imperialist, he is a petty-bourgeois, an opponent of
socialism. Imperialism is something else again."

[Why this quote is right: Molotov indicates he had a sometimes lonely
struggle against Khruschev who had thousands of backers of like mind.
Under Khruschev, scum like Boris Yeltsin became party leaders and eventually
restored open capitalism. Countless "middle-of-the-roaders" thought Tito
and Khruschev were good communists.

Even more importantly, Molotov predicted the break-up of Yugoslavia
along the blood-letting lines we see today. Tito's phony socialism only
exacerbated national conflicts, by his focus of "local control."]