Word: istria
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...landings on the French Riviera so weakened the Army that Northern Italy could not be liberated for eight months . . . When the collapse of German resistance finally occurred in the spring, it was too late: the Russian armies had occupied Vienna, Hungary and the Balkans, Tito was installed in Istria as far as Trieste, and in Italy Communism had time and opportunity to present itself as an ally of democracy and a factor in national independence...
...wrote the gloomy Wozzeck, was a Viennese; Bela Bartok, whose Bluebeard's Castle almost makes a sympathetic character out of Bluebeard, was a Hungarian; even Luigi Dallapiccola, whose opera, The Prisoner (TIME, May 29, 1950), gives him front rank in the new school, grew up in Austrian Istria...