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The History Hour: Communist Yugoslavia breaks with the USSR

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Communist Yugoslavia breaks with the USSR

27/06/2015 GMT

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Marshal Tito shuns Stalin, the downing of Air India Flight 182 and saving the whale.

Marshal Tito shuns Stalin in 1948; saving the whale forty years ago; the downing of Air India Flight 182; Britain’s first black woman MP and the life of writer James Salter.

In June 1948 Marshal Tito shocked the world by shunning his former Soviet ally, Stalin; plus the downing of Air India Flight 182 in 1985; the first direct action by environmental activists forty years ago; Britain’s first black woman MP and the life of writer and pilot, James Salter.

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