Implications
The agreement is also seen as a high point in relations between the Serbian and Croatian factions within the federal Yugoslavia, which quickly devolved. Soon after the death of Soviet premier Joseph Stalin, the nation was no longer able to define itself as a distinct and opposite kind of communist nation, and so building a federal, unified Yugoslavia was no longer the top priority for the nation. Factional disagreements and power struggles following a scandal in which the head of the Yugoslav security services, the UDBA, had bugged the residences of top Serbian party officials, and had even placed Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito himself under surveillance.
The bugging plan was masterminded by Aleksandar Ranković and overseen by a Croat general, namely Ivan Gošnjak. Ranković was fired by Tito and stripped of all of his posts. However, he was never incarcerated for his involvement.
The ensuing scandal was seen as a de facto victory for the rest of the various factions within Yugoslavia, and the clamor for more separation from the federal state grew. In 1967, the Croats responded to this outcry by refusing to honor the agreement, which was representative of the fractious nature endemic to not only the nation but the region as a whole.
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