ABSTRACT
Postcolonial elites took part in initiatives such as the inaugural conference of the Non-Aligned Movement in Belgrade in 1961 in efforts to try to shape more independent paths to modern industrial development. The Czech coup carried out in February 1948, in the wake of Bulgarian leader Georgi Dimitrovs announcement of a future Balkan Federation. It made the Finnish policy of incipient neutralism more difficult to pursue, given its goal of political independence from Moscow. Tito and Kardelj still remembered and resented the virulent attacks on Yugoslavia during the Tito-Stalin split and afterwards, made as part of the Soviet Union's anti-Yugoslav campaign from 1948 to 1953. From the different perspective of the European political border with the Soviet Union, the global Cold War stood out much more essentially as presenting a geopolitical dilemma but wanted to remain independent would have to draft foreign policies of neutralism in responses to the Soviet Union.
