Word: balkans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians' four-month campaign to knock the Balkan satellites out of the war appeared to be near another climax: capture of Budapest and a break into the Slovak approaches to Vienna...
Said the unofficial Army & Navy Journal last week: "Since D-day in France, greater preoccupation has been shown by Russia in her Baltic and Balkan campaigns and by Great Britain in Italy, Greece and Albania than in the prime objective of our armies-the prompt defeat of Germany. In the liberated countries there have been Communistic and British interference and clashing which affect military operations. ... It was expected from the attitude of Marshal Stalin a year ago that he would cooperate. . . . [Now] Communistic activities would indicate that no effective brake has been applied...
...plan for the formation of a new Balkan state-federated Yugoslavia-was announced officially from Moscow last week. A new chapter in Balkan and European history had begun...
...Royal Palace, fierce, shabby Partisans mounted guard. But the palace was an empty symbol. Young King Peter, exiled in London, might never live there again. Boys & girls of the Serbian Anti-Fascist Youth Congress chanted: "We don't want Peter, we want Tito." Said Tito: "Old Balkan differences will never again appear in the Balkans...
...plans for a federated Yugoslavia went through, it would emerge as the strongest state in the Balkans. A Balkan Federation to include Bulgaria and Rumania was a likely next step. Before the Big Three met again (see U.S. at WAR), Russia's political control of the Balkans would be consolidated...