Members in Cominform → included leaders of communist parties in Eastern Europe. Set up in 1947 → Cominform → published propaganda → that would unite communist states → in Europe → and ensured that satellite states implement a soviet style communism → and trade mainly with other Cominform countries.
Stalin used Cominform → to tighten his control over the satellite states + ensure that US could not gain any political influence in them.
At Cominform meetings → Stalin told Eastern European states → which policies they should follow.
- included rejecting financial support → from Marshall Plan + cutting off trade and any other kind of contact with countries → that did not belong to Cominform.
There was no real debate within Cominform.
- only state which argued with Stalin was Yugoslavia → led by Marshal Tito.
- Yugoslavia → was expelled from Cominform in 1948 → and there was bitter, long lasting feud between him and Stalin