Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moscow's wary, cautious eye, Bulgaria's ambitious Premier and ex-Comintern Boss Georgi Dimitrov and Yugoslavia's restless, bellicose Marshal Tito were pedaling too far and too fast...
Both, with the silent assent of Rumania's hard-driving Communist Matriarch Ana Pauker, had been talking up a federation composed of Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Albania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Rumania and Poland (TIME, Jan. 26). Quilted into a single state, it would comprise 447,000 square miles with 81 million people. It had growing armies, resources of coal, oil, and some highly developed industry. In the absence of a strong Germany, it would be Europe's most formidable power outside Russia. And it was perched on Russia's doorstep...
...swank Palace Hotel, untitled rich and titled rich & poor had their choice of more varieties of scotch than could be had in all Paris. Celebrity-hunters had their pick of ex-King Peter and Alexandra of Yugoslavia, any number of princes and dukes, Britain's famed Jockey Gordon Richards, or Paulette Goddard...
...last. It was not simply the old sneering gossip about which amateur got paid how much, or the sometimes unequal struggle between sportsmanship and competitive spirit, intensified by national rivalries. There was a deeper and grimmer game afoot: for some "iron cur tain" countries, like Rumania and Yugoslavia, competition had become almost a matter of life & death; some athletes were nervous about going back home if they didn't perform up to snuff. Soviet Russia sent no competitors, only a vigilante squad of ten observers...
...time is ripe our peoples will decide whether it shall be a federation or a confederation of states, and they also shall decide the moment when it will take the shape of a state." Candidates for inclusion in the new state, as listed by Dimitrov: Bulgaria, Albania, Rumania, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia "and even Greece...