Jugoslovensko-sovjetski odnosi početkom 60-ih godina
Yugoslav-Soviet Relationship In Beginning Of The 1960-ties

Summary/Abstract: By the beginning of the 1960ties, a normalisation of the Yugoslav-Soviet political relations took place. Serious political and ideolgical issues were solved or putted aside from the daily political relationship between two states and parties. Realising its growing influence among several Third World countires, through the Non Aligned Movement, and also with the idea of suppresing the rising Chinese influence, Soviet leadership developed the cooperation with Tito on several issues. This course of events was stongholded by the process of the de-Stalinisation and criticism of the Stalinist practice, that was publicy opened by the Khrushchev since XXII Communist Party congress held in October 1961. On the other side, Yugoslavia’s political leadership, realize that the process of the normalisation of the relations with the Soviets, was vital for its nonaligned policy. Since the main economical partners through the previous years, were Western countires, it stareted to be percieved as a kind of threat to Yugoslavia’s independence. On the other side, new nonaligned partners did not take serious part in Yugoslav econmical relations. This situation leaded to estabilishing of the different economical partner programs with USSR and Eastern Bloc countries. This political turn, all the earlier political and idelogical differencies were abandoned in favour of the development of the good relations on both sides in period 1962/1963. Later events showed, that those relations were not fully honnest. Both sides proclaimed policy of the peacefull coexistention, but with the different contence. Soviets have the policy of the peacefull coexistention only towards the West. But they maintained the attitude, that the relations between the communist states should be on the basis of socalled Socialist Internationalism and firm hierarchy and discipline. Tito and Yugoslav political leadership insisteded on the universal use of the peacefull coexistention and refused to join the Socialist bloc. Those different approaches leaded to another YugoslavSoviet dispute in the beginning of the next decade.

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