Why didn't Stalin use force to bring Tito into line?
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Sorry, it was indeed the Soviet armoured thrusts which LIBERATED Yugoslavia- the Germans didn't move an inch from Belgrade-and the Vojvodina plains until the Soviet armored thrust came- that and that alone pushed the Germans out, as well as the Allies breaches on the Adriatic coast which finally initiated the German evacuation from Coastal Yugoslavia. Stalin let Tito and the Partisans make their "liberation" narrative AFTER the war. As for why Stalin did not invade Yugo, pretty simple, Stalin's aim was not to supress Tito- Stalin's aim was a warm water port for the Soviet navy- and Yugoslavia was a good choice- at this time- it took a phone call from Churchill to Stalin who warned Stalin the allies WOULD go to war to block any Soviet attempt at a warm water port in Yugoslavia- that is the MAIN reason why Stalin deferred.
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The USSR was destroyed by the war (WW2). They didn't have the energy to fight anymore.
Yugoslavia was next to Italy (which was a NATO member). Stalin was to attack Tito, he would be in serious trouble by NATO.
Tito freed Yugoslavia single highhandedly from the Axis
The West was backing Yugoslavia during the war and after.
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Stalin lacked adequate forces while maintaining other commitments during his life time to do so. While organisation for an offensive was desultory during the 1947-1950 period, from 1950 the Soviet Union decided to reorganise the surrounding states' militaries on a new basis. In the opinion of Tismaneanu, had the Soviet Union bordered Yugoslavia, intervention would have occurred without reference to the disorganisation of the fraternal state's militaries. Therefore, we can conclude that Stalin's death before the fraternal militaries were sufficiently organised is the chief cause of Stalin's lack of use of military force against Titoist Yugoslavia.
Sources
- Vladimir Tismaneanu 2009 Stalinism Revisited: The Establishment of Communist Regimes in East-Central Europe Central European University Press, 87-96.
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Unlike other East European states, the Russians did not free Yugoslavia from the Axis, so they never had forces deployed in the country. An attack would be an invasion. Also, Yugoslavia was easy for the West to send support to, from the Adriatic, Greece and Italy. They had their own army, and it was a fairly good one.
So you have a good army to fight, bad terrain to fight in, and the fact that you might not win the battle and have to lose face versus the West. And Tito never made his "independent line" into something that would hurt the USSR image, or threaten its hold over the Eastern Bloc.
So little to gain by crushing a state that wasn't a real problem - and a good chance of losing, or having the situation spiral out of control. The USSR only bet safe bets.
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