Word: yugoslavia
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...final onslaught against Hitler's Germany, Roosevelt and Churchill gave tacit approval to the notion that Eastern Europe would be a Soviet "sphere of influence" after the defeat of their common enemy. It became more than that. By 1948 Bulgaria, Rumania, Poland, Albania, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary and Yugoslavia had acquired Communist governments, either by the force of Soviet arms or by political subversion...
...Yugoslavia's Josip Broz Tito hurled the first challenge to East bloc unity; his country was ceremoniously expelled in 1948 from the Cominform, the Moscow-dominated alliance of Communist states, for pursuing an independent foreign policy. Thirteen years later, Albania effectively withdrew from the Warsaw Pact...
...banks have been happy to lend to Eastern European countries, which they believe are good risks. Communist governments are presumed to be stable. Moreover, the debtors in socialist nations are not firms but governments, and their repayment record over the past 35 years is unblemished. That helps explain why Yugoslavia has been able to borrow more than $7.5 billion from Western banks and why Rumania owes $4.2 billion to private foreign lenders...
...students thought of bell-bottom trousers; 69% said they were not a matter for meddling by others. This year the pollsters acquiesced by not meddling. One question this year asked students to choose the country that China should most emulate economically. Japan led with 28%, followed closely by Yugoslavia with 26%, then, some distance behind, came the U.S. with 11% and the Soviet Union with...
...people's restlessness and the discrepancy be tween a dogmatic Marxian approach to economics and the evident reality, some Communist states have become surprisingly experimental- heretical even. In some of their demands, the workers of Gdansk were asking only for what their comrades in Hungary gained years ago. Yugoslavia practices a renegade Communism that allows for certain capitalist trappings...