Interestingly, just five years after the tournament, only one of the medal winners remained intact, with Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union breaking apart. The Maryland native commented on the ...

In an effort to resolve this conflict, a series of seemingly unending meetings of the Foreign Ministers of the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union... Chaos, political and economic instability ...

In his book (Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union in the Early Cold War) he successfully argued that Yugoslavia's relationship with the Soviet Union had critical ramifications for the entire Eastern Bloc ...

The same has traditionally been true with regard to Yugoslavia, which successive U.S. administrations considered "our" communist country as distinct from "theirs" (i.e., the Soviet Union's).

MARSHAL TITO (1892-1980): Leader of Yugoslavia from 1943 until his death. He led an autocratic communist government which remained officially unaligned to either the U.S. or the Soviet Union ...