The Sunan Conflict With Yugoslavia, The Non-aligned Road

After the Second World War, promoted by the Soviet Union to a great extent, many socialist regimes were founded in Eastern Europe. Socialism was not confined to the Soviet Union any more. Since the Cold War, especially the founding of the Communist Intelligence Agency, they, linked by the same ideology, formed a seemingly unbreakable alliance which was seen as a monolithic bloc by western capitalist countries with America and Britain at the core. Led by the Soviet Union, the alliance adopted a hostile attitude towards the western countries.However, the monolithic communist alliance didn't last long. The relationships among the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries strongly proved that the monolithic alliance was only a kind of fairy tale. In 1948, Yugoslavia was thought to be the most faithful ally of the Soviet Union, but her conflict and break with the Soviet Union denied the tale. The conflict between Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union was the first great break at that time's international communist movement, as was a tragedy to the whole international communist movement. But from the other point of view, it had an active effect on Yugoslavia and the international communist movement at that time. Just for Yugoslavia, the conflict separated her from the socialist block led by the Soviet Union so that she would adopt a model different from that of the Soviet Union and open up a new prospect for the international communist movement. This paper mainly discusses the conflict's influences on the foreign policies adopted by Yugoslavia. The paper maintains that it was the Soviet-Yugoslavian Conflict that forced Yugoslavia to choose the road of independence and non-alignment.This paper includes three parts. The first part proves that the road of non-alignment was Yugoslavia's inexorable choice, which resulted from her diplomatic belief and the adjustment of foreign policies after the conflict. This part is analyzed through the following three sections: the Soviet-Yugoslavian...