Cominformists
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Cominformists (Serbo-Croatian: ibeovci, informbirovci) were members of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia stigmatised as pro-Soviet and pro-Stalin after the Tito–Stalin split of 1948. The term derived from the Cominform (Communist Information Bureau), the Soviet-led international body that expelled Yugoslavia in June 1948. Tito's security apparatus, led by Aleksandar Ranković, registered over 55,000 party members as Cominformists between 1948 and 1951 alone. Most were imprisoned without trial at camps such as Goli Otok, where they endured violent 're-education,' and thousands were killed or died from maltreatment.
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- Wikipedia (EN) Comprehensive article on the Informbiro period (1948–1955): coining of the term 'Cominformists'/'ibeovci,' 55,663 KPJ members registered as Cominformists (19.52% of 1948 party membership), 16,288 arrested and convicted, establishment of Goli Otok camp, and purges of the military and security apparatus.
- creees.stanford.edu Stanford CREEES event abstract: confirms around 13,000 real or alleged Stalin supporters jailed on Goli Otok from 1949 to 1956, subjected to hard labour and violent 're-education' in a camp system combining elements of Nazi camps and the Soviet Gulag.
- yuhistorija.com Academic volume 'The Tito-Stalin Split 70 Years After' (Zagreb–Ljubljana, 2020): confirms the Informbiro period purges, the Cominformist phenomenon, and includes chapters on Cominform supporters across Yugoslav republics and the Goli Otok camp system.