Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more . . . apparent to the people under Soviet control. The Kremlin's system of terror, which appears to be its main strength, is one of its greatest weaknesses. Dictatorships are based on fear. In China, the failure of the Korean adventure is weakening the hold of the Communist government. Yugoslavia has thrown off the Kremlin yoke. There are growing signs of internal tension behind the Iron Curtain. We are not engaged in a struggle without end. Peace under law is the victory we seek. I am confident that the American people will not yield either to impatience or defeatism...
Albania (pop. 1,100,000) is the most obscure, backward and isolated country behind the Iron Curtain. The best place to find information about life inside the small Red satellite these days is neighboring Yugoslavia. After a trip to Yugoslavia, TIME Correspondent Robert Lubar cabled...
...just about the only view an outsider can get of Albania today, but from the stories that drift across the frontier, it is possible to piece together a more accurate picture. Albania is the only satellite state which is not joined geographically to the Soviet family. Tito's Yugoslavia separates Albania from Communist Bulgaria and the other Russian satellites. This makes it hard for Russia to run the country, and the Russians do their best to keep Albania from any unsettling contact with the free world that might make it even harder to keep the country in line. Each...
Bureaucratic control, implied Borba, had much to do with Yugoslavia's industrial paralysis and its failure to raise the standard of living. Boris Kidric, Tito's No. 1 economist, declared: "Soviet theory sometimes seems to be very funny . . . [We] ought to pay enormous attention to the development of capitalist economy . . . We must get rid of narrowness, that basic provincial habit...
...command of Maginot Line troops when France capitulated in 1940, escaped to Algiers, where he briefly joined De Gaulle's Committee of National Liberation. One of his most famous adventures was in 1934 in Marseille, when a Croat assassin attacked the car in which he was riding with Yugoslavia's King Alexander, killed the King (and France's Foreign Minister, Louis Barthou), wounded Georges while he tried to shield the King...