Word: balkanized
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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During World War II he served as assistant to the director of the Balkan section of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). He was best known for his book "The Balkans in Our Times...
...prospect of Tito's imminent death revived quiescent fears about what might befall Yugoslavia afterward. Would the polyglot Balkan nationalities that Tito had united into a nation resume their old, antagonistic ways and 'tear the country apart? If so, would the Soviet Union jump into the disorder to reassert its hegemony over the maverick Communist state...