Fatal Resentments
Stalin had Insisted at Yalta on the establishment of friendly governments in the countries liberated by the Red Army. As his meaning became clear he dealtaratalblowtothe hopes of Yalta. ' Salami tactics ' paved the way for Communist governments wholly subservient to Moscow. There were to be no separate roads to socialism in the manner of Tito's Yugoslavia and the Soviet model was to be followed down to the letter of the purge trials which Stalin ordered for Hungary and Czechoslovakia.
In the second of four programmes.
Michael Charlton argues that the Imposition of an alien ideology backed by terror created resentments which may now be fatal to the stability of the Soviet empire in Eastern Europe.
Producer DAVID MORTON