Since 1948 there was a sincere rift in the relationships between the Soviet Union and the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia, as Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito established a socialist regime disregarding Joseph Stalin's doctrine. After Stalin's death in 1953, Tito had to choose between a more western approach to reforms or an agreement with new Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. Tito tried to reconcile with the Soviet Union, inviting Khrushchev to Belgrade in 1955. The Khrushchev's trip to Belgrade is sometimes colloquially known as the Soviet Canossa. This meeting resulted in the Belgrade declaration ending the Informbiro, granting other socialist countries the right to interpret Marxism in a different way, and ensured equal relationships amongst all satellite states and the Soviet Un