‚When I went to Moscow,‘ he [Tito] said long afterwards, ‚I never knew whether I would come back alive. And while I was there I never knew that I would not wake up in the middle of the night to hear the fatal knocking at my door.‘ No one in the west in the 1940s had fully taken in what Stalin and Yezhov had done to Tito, and thousands of his companions among the world’s leading communists, in the late 1930s.

—M.R.D. Foot, Resistance, (London: Biteback Publishing Ltd, 2016), 297-298.