Summary
Federico Tenca Montini: We Don't Give Trieste: Yugoslavia and the Trieste Question 1945-1954
The fate of the city of Trieste and the Trieste crisis, which lasted from May 1945 until the conclusion of the London Memorandum in October 1954, was the most sensitive peacetime part in the relations between the two countries, Italy and Yugoslavia, and several nations, primarily Italian, Slovenian and Croatian.
Tenca Montini reinterprets, reminds and explains what happened in ten years between two states, two blocs, and then a separate, independent, but still socialist state, in the ten years after the war. It is a text that talks about the conflict between the West and the East, debates about the right of peoples to self-determination, but also reflections on the spoils of war, punishments and rewards, the relationship between large and small nations, wrong decisions in the past, responsibility for war crimes, readiness for fierce resistance, charismatic leaders.
From the foreword by Tvrtko Jakovine
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