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===Harry Truman===
===Harry Truman===
On the 23rd of April in 1948, in a speech [Directory:Harry S. Truman|[Harry Truman]] (the President of [[USA]]) stated:
On the 23rd of April in 1948, in a speech [[Directory:Harry S. Truman|Harry Truman]] (the President of [[USA]]) stated:
"''I am told that Tito murdered more than 400 000 of the opposition in Yugoslavia before he got himself established there as a dictator"'' <ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=-Xkv7ym8hDYC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Keeping+Tito+Afloat:+The+United+States,+Yugoslavia,+and+the+Cold+War&client=safari&cd=1#v=snippet&q=%20tito%20trade%20papers%20four%20hundred%20thousand&f=false Keeping Tito Afloat] by Lorraine M. Lees: Tito Afloat draws upon newly '''declassified documents''' to show the critical role that Yugoslavia played in U.S. foreign policy with the communist world in the early years of the Cold War. After World War II, the United States considered Yugoslavia to be a loyal Soviet satellite, but Tito surprised the West in 1948 by breaking with Stalin. Seizing this opportunity, the Truman administration sought to "keep Tito afloat" by giving him military and economic aid.</ref><ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=SekQBzQMteEC&printsec=frontcover&dq=josip+broz+Tito++harry+truman&source=gbs_book_other_versions#v=snippet&q=Tito%20&f=falsee Woodrow Wilson and Harry Truman:] Mission and Power in American Foreign Policy by Anne R. Pierce. Page 219</ref>
"''I am told that Tito murdered more than 400 000 of the opposition in Yugoslavia before he got himself established there as a dictator"'' <ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=-Xkv7ym8hDYC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Keeping+Tito+Afloat:+The+United+States,+Yugoslavia,+and+the+Cold+War&client=safari&cd=1#v=snippet&q=%20tito%20trade%20papers%20four%20hundred%20thousand&f=false Keeping Tito Afloat] by Lorraine M. Lees: Tito Afloat draws upon newly '''declassified documents''' to show the critical role that Yugoslavia played in U.S. foreign policy with the communist world in the early years of the Cold War. After World War II, the United States considered Yugoslavia to be a loyal Soviet satellite, but Tito surprised the West in 1948 by breaking with Stalin. Seizing this opportunity, the Truman administration sought to "keep Tito afloat" by giving him military and economic aid.</ref><ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=SekQBzQMteEC&printsec=frontcover&dq=josip+broz+Tito++harry+truman&source=gbs_book_other_versions#v=snippet&q=Tito%20&f=falsee Woodrow Wilson and Harry Truman:] Mission and Power in American Foreign Policy by Anne R. Pierce. Page 219</ref>
===Franjo Tudman===
===Franjo Tudman===
Franjo Tudman who was the first President of Croatia, was sentenced to prison for his political activities in the former Yugoslavia.<ref>[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=GPQKYuWisi0C&pg=PA111&dq=Franjo+Tudman+imprisoned&hl=en&ei=NRnVS_-iOo-gkQXbmJGPDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CEMQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=Franjo%20Tudman%20imprisoned&f=false The Breakup of Yugoslavia and the War in Bosnia ] by Carole Rogel</ref>
Franjo Tudman who was the first President of Croatia, was sentenced to prison for his political activities in the former Yugoslavia.<ref>[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=GPQKYuWisi0C&pg=PA111&dq=Franjo+Tudman+imprisoned&hl=en&ei=NRnVS_-iOo-gkQXbmJGPDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CEMQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=Franjo%20Tudman%20imprisoned&f=false The Breakup of Yugoslavia and the War in Bosnia ] by Carole Rogel</ref>
