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Ursprungligen postat av Denom
Om du hade bemödat dig med att googla först hade du funnit svar. Ger dig två av de alternativ som först dyker upp om du söker.
http://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/ind...?topic=43403.0
http://www.soviet-empire.com/ussr/viewtopic.php?t=39778
Några klockrena svar dök upp redan i början av din första länk. För er som inte orkar leta själva:
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The short answer is, they couldn't, at least not without engaging in a long-term bloody war and difficult occupation. Unlike the rest of the Eastern Europe, Yugoslavia was not, mostly, "liberated" by the Soviets, and was not occupied by the Soviet troops in 1948. Tito had at his disposal a viable and battle-tested army, and, even more importantly, everything ready for starting a massive partisan resistance to any invading army. In 1948 both Poland and Czechoslovakia were de facto Soviet-occupied, so there wasn't any way to resist Communist takeovers there.
Och det här:
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That's what I was thinking, but I also thought about the fact that it'd really be impossible for the Soviets to replace Tito. Tito, as a national hero who had driven out the Nazis and in doing so had risen above the ethnic lines, was just about the only guy who could govern an essentially ungovernable state, Yugoslavia was already falling apart before WWII and actually did during the war.
Det här citatet kanske illustrerar hur självsäker Tito var under denna period:
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" Stalin: stop sending people to kill me. We've already captured five of them, one of them with a bomb and another with a rifle... If you don't stop sending killers, I'll send one to Moscow, and I won't have to send a second. "
Men enligt folk som minns händelserna så var oron för en invasion via Ungern en verklig rädsla under en lång tid.