Sovjetsko "novo razmišljanje" i sigurnost Jugoslavije
Soviet "New Thinking" and the Safety of Yugoslavia

Summary/Abstract: Numerous reforms in Soviet society and in the international activities of the Soviet Union, advanced with the arrival of M. S. Gorbatchov and summed up in the terms »perestroyka« and »new thinking« have provoked exceptional interest and attention of the group of countries in the immediate vicinity of the USSR, which includes Yugoslavia. The author believes that the Soviet government under M. S. Gorbatchov pursues in fact a policy of strengthening and furthering the Warsaw Treaty organization which happens to be not only contrary to the general Yugoslav platform of non-alignment, but even more precisely, contrary to the immediate interests of Yugoslavia’s safety. Therefore, he concludes, although in Yugoslavia there is much sympathy for the policy of »re-structuring« in the USSR, there is little likelihood that all its consequences will ha\e a politically, economically, and strategically positive impact upon Yugoslavia, at least not in short term perspective.Numerous reforms in Soviet society and in the international activities of the Soviet Union, advanced with the arrival of M. S. Gorbatchov and summed up in the terms »perestroyka« and »new thinking« have provoked exceptional interest and attention of the group of countries in the immediate vicinity of the USSR, which includes Yugoslavia. The author believes that the Soviet government under M. S. Gorbatchov pursues in fact a policy of strengthening and furthering the Warsaw Treaty organization which happens to be not only contrary to the general Yugoslav platform of non-alignment, but even more precisely, contrary to the immediate interests of Yugoslavia’s safety. Therefore, he concludes, although in Yugoslavia there is much sympathy for the policy of »re-structuring« in the USSR, there is little likelihood that all its consequences will have a politically, economically, and strategically positive impact upon Yugoslavia, at least not in short term perspective.

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