Југословенско- совјетскиодносиусвИјетлумађарскекризе1956.
Yugoslav - Soviet Relations With Regard To the 1956 Hungarian Crisis

Summary/Abstract: Normalization of Yugoslav-Soviet relations after the death of Stalin inevitably determined Yugoslav relations with other socialist countries. The new Yugoslav foreign policy established at the beginning of 1950s had an immense influence on other socialist countries of the Soviet camp, in particular Poland and Hungary. The intensification of Yugoslav – Hungarian dialogue initiated by Yugoslav – Soviet reproachment followed the currents of political events in Hungary (Imre Nagy vs. Matyas Rakosi and Erno Gero), with Yugoslav leadership actually supporting Nagy. The sheltering of Nagy and his followers in the Yugoslav Embassy in Budapest after Soviet troops brutally crashed the rebellion, Yugoslav-Soviet-Hungarian negotiations about the group departure from the Yugoslav Embassy, and the inter-party negotiations which started after Nagy’s abduction, resulted in the repeated worsening of diplomatic relations between Yugoslavia and Soviet Union. The Soviets realized that Yugoslavia would never return to the Eastern block and, still worse from Moscow’s point of view, that Yugoslavia would play a more and more active role among the non-aligned states. For United States, Yugoslavia was supposed to serve as a model to be followed by other socialist countries in their efforts to become more liberal and independent from the Soviet Union.

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