WI: Yugoslavian agent kills Stalin?

So during the split between Tito and Stalin old Uncle Joe kept sending NKVD agents to kill him and Tito eventually wrote a letter telling him to stop because if he didn't Tito would send one to Moscow to kill him and would've have to send another. So what happens if Stalin doesn't stop and Tito goes through with his threat and it succeeds?
 
Perhaps it was actually OTL. Stalin's death was under suspicious circumstances. If it were to be leaked out as Tito's doing, Tito may gain more cred than he had, or be isolated from the rest of the Communist world, depending on how the situation is portrayed.
 
Perhaps it was actually OTL. Stalin's death was under suspicious circumstances. If it were to be leaked out as Tito's doing, Tito may gain more cred than he had, or be isolated from the rest of the Communist world, depending on how the situation is portrayed.
If Stalin was assassinated (a big if, since he was a sick old man whose medical history suggested that a stroke was highly likely) it was by Lavrentiy Beria, his secret police chief. Outside of that letter there isn't really any evidence that Tito killed Stalin.

Now, if Tito had somehow killed Stalin there would be massive consequences. Stalin's successors would almost certainly invade Yugoslavia, since Stalin was worshipped as a demigod (meaning the Soviet people will demand revenge) and because killing another country's leader is basically a declaration of war. Yugoslavia would get support from the West and become a Soviet Vietnam. There probably won't be a Secret Speech or destalinization. After all, if you launch a war to avenge someone's death declaring them a monster who betrayed Leninism isn't going to go over well.
 
Truman then gives Tito the option of being under the US Nuclear Umbrella, as well as more US gear besides the WWII surplus and M47 tanks they got OTL as being part of the US MDAP aid program that ran from 1948-1957

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Yugo M36 TD http://ftr.wot-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/m36-25.jpg
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Note the Stahlhelm, they captured so many of them they were in service till 1959, when they adopted a more Soviet style helmet
 
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