AHC: Soviet-friendly Yugoslavia

My challenge for you, is to make Yugoslavia warm back up with the Soviet Union, including joining the Warsaw Pact. My POD would be following the death of Josip Broz Tito on May 4th, 1980. You can make this happen in any way you like, so long as it plausible.
 
The easiest way to do this is to have one of the German attempts to kill Tito succeed, so the Soviets send one of their own puppets to head the Yugoslav Communist movement and with this establish a fully-dependent-on-Moscow Warsaw Pact state. So long as Tito's around and able to establish an independent movement Soviet influence won't work.
 
The easiest way to do this is to have one of the German attempts to kill Tito succeed, so the Soviets send one of their own puppets to head the Yugoslav Communist movement and with this establish a fully-dependent-on-Moscow Warsaw Pact state. So long as Tito's around and able to establish an independent movement Soviet influence won't work.

The most reliable Soviet puppet for Yugoslavia would be Milovan Djilas, or unless I am wrong. Other than that, Stalin could also engineer a pro-Soviet, pan-Yugoslav state. With that, Stalin would have an additional puppet ally that could menace Greece and Turkey on one blow.
 
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