Did Stalin Send Dissidents to Serbia to Prevent a Coup? No Evidence Exists

Historical records contain no credible evidence that Joseph Stalin ever dispatched dissidents to Serbia (or Yugoslavia) to thwart a coup or assassination. Soviet-Yugoslav relations were tense after the 1948 Tito–Stalin split, but the repression took the form of political purges, show trials, and border incidents—not a covert dissident-relocation program to Serbia.