Editing Belgrade declaration (section)

==Background==

After [[Death and state funeral of Joseph Stalin|Stalin's death]] in 1953, Tito had to choose between a more Western approach to reforms or an agreement with new Soviet leader [[Nikita Khrushchev]]. The two countries formally reestablished diplomatic relations with Soviet ambassador [[Vasily Valkov]] arriving to Belgrade on 30 July and Yugoslav ambassador Dobrivoje Vidić arriving to Moscow on 30 September 1953 under the leadership of [[Georgy Malenkov]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Osmanagić |first=Danijel |date=17 May 2020 |title=Beograjska deklaracija, eden največjih Titovih političnih uspehov |url=https://zgodovinanadlani.si/beograjska-deklaracija-eden-najvecjih-titovih-politicnih-uspehov/ |website=Zgodovina na dlani |language=sl |access-date=27 August 2021}}</ref> This, however, did not automatically lead to normalization between the two ruling parties. The [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]] and the [[League of Communists of Yugoslavia]] exchanged letters in late 1955.<ref name="Edemskiy" />

Tito tried to reconcile with the Soviet Union, inviting Khrushchev to [[Belgrade]] in 1955. The Khrushchev trip to Belgrade is sometimes colloquially known as the "Soviet [[Canossa]]".<ref>{{cite book |last=Jakovina |first=Tvrtko |author-link=Tvrtko Jakovina |year=2020 |title=Budimir Lončar: Od Preka do vrha svijeta |trans-title=Budimir Lončar: From Preko to the Top of the World |url=https://fraktura.hr/budimir-loncar.html |language=hr |location=[[Zaprešić]], Croatia |publisher=Fraktura |page=292 |isbn=978-953-358-239-9}}</ref>

This meeting resulted in the Belgrade declaration ending the [[Informbiro period]], granting other socialist countries the right to interpret [[Marxism]] in a different way, and ensured  more equal relationships amongst all [[satellite state]]s and the Soviet Union. But the limits of this agreement became evident after the [[Soviet invasion of Hungary|Soviet intervention]] in [[Hungarian People's Republic|Hungary]] in October 1956; this was followed by a new Soviet campaign against Tito, which held the Yugoslav government responsible for the Hungarian insurrection. Soviet–Yugoslav relationships went through similar cool periods in the 1960s (after the violent ending of the [[Prague Spring]] and the subsequent [[Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia]]) and thereafter.<ref>{{cite book|last=Holt|first=Robert T.|year=1958|title=Radio Free Europe|location=Minneapolis|publisher=University of Minnesota Press|page=163|isbn=0-8166-0160-7}}</ref> Yugoslavia, however, became an associated member of the [[Comecon]] in 1964 after an agreement was reached with the Soviet leadership.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Thomas |first=C. J. |date=November 1976 |journal=[[The Comparative and International Law Journal of Southern Africa]] |volume=9 |number=3 |page=330 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23905548 |title=The Comecon: catalyst for economic cooperation in Eastern Europe |jstor=23905548 |access-date=6 July 2023}}</ref>