121 Božo Repe e Tito-Stalin Conflict: Yugoslavia as the Westernmost Part of the Eastern World After the Communist Party (or the Liberation Front in Slovenia) assumed power and crushed its non-party opposition at the end of World War II, the focus of political dissension in Yugoslavia and Slovenia shifted to the factions within the Communist Party (renamed the League of Communists in 1952). Before the mid-1980s, there was no organised opposition in Slovenia. e only exceptions were the Catholic Church, with which the authorities started searching for common ground in the second half of the 1950s, finally achieving a bearable modus vivendi in the 1960s; and the intellectual opposition, centred around individual journals, whose freedom was determined by the current mood and power relations at the top. From the late 1940s to the early 1980s, there were three major instances of score-settling during the Pan-Yugoslav campaigns and purges, which also reached Slovenia and, at the same time, went beyond mere inner- -party score-settling: e Cominform, Đilasism and party “Liberalism”. e Cominform (Communist Information Bureau) was established on 30 Septem- ber 1947 in Szklarska Poręba, Poland. e session was attended by the communist parti- es of the Soviet Union, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Albania, France, Italy, and Yugoslavia. After the session, a communiqué was issued which stated that the tasks of the Cominform were to organise an exchange of experiences between the communist parties and, should the need arise, coordinate their activities based on the spirit of unity, and that it had been decided at the session that the Information Bu- reau would publish its own periodical with an editorial office based in Belgrade. e ac- tual purpose of this consultation was to strengthen the influence of the Soviet Union in East European countries and in Yugoslavia, while using the biggest Western communist parties (of Italy and France) to influence the turbulent, almost revolutionary conditions in those two countries. is policy soon began to conflict with the policy of the CPY, which was – apart from the VKP(b) [All-Russian Communist Party (Bolshevik)] – the