Word: balkanize
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...stood a stubborn fact of power politics: Greece is in the British sphere and Moscow knows it. The Kremlin can plan to cast a spell on Yugoslavia, but it cannot hope to manage Greece-unless the British so misplay their cards as to force the Greeks to join a Balkan Federation, cued from Moscow...
...Russians moved into eastern Europe, Communist Marshal Tito's valiant army of Yugoslav Partisans was acquiring a new status and a new significance. It was becoming an all-Balkan army of Yugoslavs, Albanians, Hungarians, Rumanians, Bulgarians...
...Balkans. From Italian airfields, Fortresses and Liberators of Major General Nathan F. Twining's Fifteenth Air Force flew in even-closer support of the Russians' battle for the Balkans. On six separate raids as many as 500 bombers (finally with adequate fighter protection) struck at Nazi communication centers, some within 200 miles of Hitler's Balkan defense line...
...official summary from Naples pointed out: "The temporary destruction of railway lines and the incidental destruction of rolling stock and supplies cannot fail to influence the progress of the Russian advance into the Balkans. A secondary result is to confuse further the political situation in the puppet countries striving to avoid entanglement in the German collapse." Some observers thought the Balkan raids alone might eventually justify Allied strategy in landing in Italy...
Without doubt an understanding with Russia was reached before the Balkan raids were undertaken, lest U.S. and Russian planes conflict in bombing targets. But to be fully effective the Balkan raids depended on Russian cooperation-and Russian ability to refuel and rearm the planes once they have landed behind Russian lines...