Timeline Sunday 5 October 1947

Events on Sunday 5 October 1947 1

• 1947 Cominform founded Soviet-led bureau coordinates European communist parties The Communist Information Bureau was established at a conference of nine European communist parties at Szklarska Poręba in Poland, and its formation was announced on 5 October 1947. It was Moscow's answer to the Marshall Plan and enforced Soviet control over the parties. Yugoslavia was expelled from it in 1948.