Based on what he said about his great-grandfather (that he was a Stalinist thug fighting for murderous communists in the Greek Civil War) it'd be more accurate to say that it's authoritarianism and thuggery that runs in that family.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that it was something that Stalin had agreed with the leader of the other allies at one of the meetings either right at the end of after the war; it was an important factor in the split although probably secondary to the whole Marshall Plan thing.
I do have more time for Tito than I do Stalin or pretty much every other Communist of that time; mostly because you have to respect the Yugoslav partisans for what they did during the war and he also managed to hold together the bits of Yugoslavia while having a slightly more open society than vast majority of Eastern Bloc countries during that time; I think the only exceptions would be what was attempted by Nagy in Hungary and Dubček in Czechoslovakia and look what the Soviet Union did to them... Not saying that he was a role model or anything, but its a bit harsh to compare him to Stalin...
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