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Did the 1971 Croatian Spring Purge Cause the Yugoslav Wars? - The Karađorđevo Purge and Yugoslavia's Cold War Dilemma | Sleepy Facts About History
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In December 1971, Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito received a coded message from Moscow offering "fraternal assistance" to help restore order in his country. To anyone unfamiliar with Soviet diplomacy, this might have sounded friendly. To Tito, who had watched the Warsaw Pact crush the Prague Spring three years earlier, it was an unmistakable threat. This episode explores the brutal choice Tito faced: crush a growing domestic reform movement in Croatia with his own hands, or allow Soviet…
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