Monday, October 7, 2013

The Explorers' Club, № CCCLX

The Early Cold War, Part IX: The Free Territory of Trieste (1947), the "Cominform" (Communist Information Bureau) (1947), & the split between Marshal Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union & Marshal Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia (1948).







Commentary: This series, "The Early Cold War," has progress roughly chronologically, & so the episode on the Tito-Stalin split was meant to precede the episode on the People's Republic of China, as happened chronologically. But we had a strong desire to publish that latter episode on or near the 1 October anniversary of the P.R.C.'s founding & our running behind schedule (it's like we're an Italian railroad—as soon as we catch up we cannot resist falling behind schedule again) prevented us from doing so in chronological order, with China as Episode № CCCLX; so, the P.R.C. was moved up to № CCCLIX & the Tito-Stalin split was bumped to to-day's № CCCLX. I know, this is inside baseball, but such is my persnicketiness that I thought you were owed an explanation.

Also, there is only one more episode of "The Early Cold War," replete with a collection of useful hyperlinks to the whole series & beyond.

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