ABSTRACT
After the 1939-45 war, in which Yugoslavia and Albania came under German and Italian control, communists took power there. They were not occupied by Soviet forces, but at first they followed the Soviet line. (Yugoslavia was then quarrelling with the western allies over Trieste, a mainly Italian-peopled city; British and American forces stayed there until 1954, when Yugoslavia agreed to let Italy keep Trieste.)
In 1948, Yugoslavia broke with the USSR. This rift disrupted the Albanian-YugoslavBulgarian backing of communist rebels in northern Greece, the last of whom withdrew into Bulgaria in 1949. With western help, Yugoslavia withstood Soviet pressure for several years. It cultivated links with ‘third-world’ countries, and in 1961 the ‘non-aligned’ movement was founded at a conference in Belgrade (6).
