his stand-in met a leader from eastern Europe and referred to him as the head of a country that has melted away after the collapse of the Soviet Union three decades ago. That was not the debut ...
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 ...
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 ...