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Events on Monday 28 June 1948 1
1948Yugoslavia expelled from the CominformTito-Stalin split fractures the communist blocOn June 28, 1948, the Communist Information Bureau expelled Yugoslavia after Josip Broz Tito refused to subordinate his government to Soviet direction. The break made Yugoslavia the first communist state to defy Moscow openly and pursue an independent, non-aligned path. It marked the first major fracture in the postwar communist bloc.