РЕАКЦИЈА ЗАПАДА НА ПРОЦЕС ЈУГОСЛОВЕНСКО-СОВЈЕТСКОГ ПРИБЛИЖАВАЊА 1955 -1957
REACTION OF THE WEST TO THE PROCESS OF YUGOSLAV-SOVIET CONVERGENCE 1955-1957

Summary/Abstract: All the difficulties of conducting of politics of equidistance among strongly confronted blocks were especially drastically manifested through interaction of two compound complexes of relationships: the relationship between Yugoslavia and western forces and Yugoslav-Soviet relationships. These two spheres of international relationships were so much mutually conditioned that every benefit of Yugoslavia on one side meant its loss on the other. Due to the fact that Yugoslavia’s economic system development and its international position depended considerably on the close cooperation with western forces, especially with the USA its management was forced to take good care of the reach of its connection with the USSR, even of every linguistic finesse that was said during meetings with Soviet officials. The current Yugoslav politics towards the USSR resulted in tumultuous political ferment in the West and increasingly prominent dilemma about politics towards Yugoslavia in the future. Two basic viewpoints came out of this in the West. Protagonists of the first viewpoint were for the stoppage of every further economic cooperation with Yugoslavia and for taking political course that was the same as the one that had been applied to other socialist countries. They proceeded from a belief that Yugoslavia was gradually returning to communists and that communism in the World would be actually supported by helping Yugoslavia. Contrary to this, protagonists of the other viewpoint advocated the continuation of cooperation with Yugoslavia, pointing to its success in the preservation of independence to USSR and a possibility that other socialist countries should start to follow such precedent as well.

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