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The signing ceremony of the Belgrade Declaration, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 2 July 1955. The signing of the Declaration by Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito (1892-1980) and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971) brought about a reconciliation between the two communist states after the rift caused by the Tito-Stalin split of 1948. Relations between the two countries would deteriorate again the following year after the Hungarian Uprising. Tito is on the far left of the photograph, with Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin (1895-1975) next to him. Khrushchev is second from the right. Found in the collection of the Museum of Yugoslavian History, Belgrade.