Sentence examples for communist federation from inspiring English sources

Once the break-up of a communist federation goes beyond a certain point, it becomes irreversible.

Everyone in the former Yugoslavia is stuck with having to reinvent himself, with having to construct new "imagined communities" from the debris of the old Communist federation.

Mr. Mesic was the last Croatian representative to the collective presidency of Yugoslavia as the old Communist federation fell apart in 1991.

As a part of Yugoslavia after both World Wars, it struggled within the Serbian-dominated state of the interwar years and emerged from World War II as a separate republic in the communist federation that navigated between the Soviet and Western blocs.

When Croatia struck out on its own as the former Yugoslavia fell apart, any talk of joining the EU seemed a little contradictory, especially to those nationalists who drove the separation from the former communist federation.

Regular parties were held in the presidential residence in Belgrade – or in the other Yugoslav towns that became capitals of new states after the bloody breakup of the communist federation – but Tito's favourite spot was his semi-private island of Brijuni, where he spent seven New Year's celebrations.

Only former republics within the old communist federations, together with the two parts of former Czechoslovakia, have become independent since 1989.

If the Communist-Federation pact was one man's creation, it was probably that of the Federation's chief, Francois Mitterrand who is being given credit for the tactical triumph of the anti-de Gaulle maneuver, with Waldeck Rochet, chief of the Communists, more quietly overseeing his party's obedience to Communist discipline.

The issue is the plan to include northern Borneo, along with Singapore, in a new anti-Communist Commonwealth Malaysia federation, whose nucleus would be Malaya.

Sustained by donations from labour organisations around the world and the communist trade union federation, the Halyvourgia steelworkers have also been unpaid since October.

Labour's strength was further dissipated by the formation of rival Catholic and communist trade-union federations in 1919 and 1921.