Word: broz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...itself without Red Army help, that nation was Yugoslavia. And if any other country came to Socialism owing the Soviet Union no military debt, that country is Cuba. The Soviet distrust of Castro and his colleagues, today so easily forgotten, parallele the Stalinist distrust of the independently victorious Josip Broz Tito. Just as Tito did in the late '40s, Castro has found it necessary to dismiss those politicians who regard the USSR as their patria. Finally, it was a dispute over military autonomy that catalyzed the Yugoslav-Soviet conflict. The same could hold true in Cuba...
...problem that President Josip Broz Tito worries out loud about from time to time is the widespread cynicism of Yugoslav youth toward his own particular brand of Communism."They do not think enough that their duty is to give to the community what they can," says Tito. Most students scorn Tito's voluntary "youth brigades" for road building, and they duck army service as long as possible by taking an average of seven years to complete a five-year university course. Many drift into the gangs of delinquents who make a living scalping sports tickets or stealing parts from...
...shadow the moment; the eye of history could scarcely encompass the spectacle of so many potentates, Presidents and dictators. There sat Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, his pink skull fringed with white, his face now frozen as a death mask, now galvanized into full-muscled motion. Behind him, rust-haired Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia posed self-assured and well fed. Scattered across the green-carpeted room, the members of the satellite pack waited with dull docility, their reflexes string-tied to the master puppeteer: Rumania's Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, Hungary's Janos Kadar, Byelorussia's Kirill Mazurov, Bulgaria...