Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...favoring the Cominform's policy-where they joined the Split fishermen. For months Tito scuffed a servile shoe outside the Cominform's closed door, angrily brushed off any suggestion of help from the West, and pleaded to be taken back. The Kremlin responded by cutting off Yugoslavia's trade with one satellite after another. In September 1949, it declared Yugoslavia "a foe and an enemy of the Soviet Union," and ended its mutual-defense agreement. Beginning with Rajk in Hungary, the Communists staged a series of satellite trials and purges-Kostov in Bulgaria, Slansky in Czechoslovakia, Gomulka...
...Kremlin waited. Always before, when they denounced a man, the comrades cut him down. Nothing happened. Among the top Yugoslav leaders, all of whom had fought through the war with Tito in Yugoslavia's cruel mountains, the Kremlin had been unable to plant anyone high enough to conduct its purge...
...soon he was accepting loans from the U.S. and Britain, making trade agreements with Italy, getting loans from the Export-Import Bank. After the drought of 1950, Tito brusquely applied for a U.S. emergency grant and got $69 million. But Yugoslavia, Tito boasted, "stayed faithful to our principles . . . giving no concessions, making no withdrawal from our Marxist line...
...aggressive designs" and asked for military aid. Yugoslavs began calling Stalin "the black beast." But Tito still jealously guarded his dictator's independence. "There can be no question of a mutual-aid agreement," he explained, "but only of an agreement in which the U.S. will give arms to Yugoslavia. The U.S. has been getting something for several years-Yugoslav resistance to the Soviet bloc. Therefore the question 'What will the U.S. get?' should not be asked...
...years since, recognizing a major power split in the Communist front, the U.S. has poured into Yugoslavia about $500 million worth of economic aid, nearly $1 billion worth of military aid - from Sherman tanks to F-84 Thunderjets; several hundred Yugoslav officers have been trained in the U.S. and on U.S. bases in Europe. The result is that Yugoslavia's army of some 250,000 well-trained men is the biggest in Europe outside the Iron Curtain. In 1953 Tito drew even closer to the West by signing a regional pact of mutual assistance with NATO partners Greece...