AHC/WI: Yugoslavia in NATO

What it says on the tin. With any POD from the foundation of NATO in 1949, have the OTL Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia be a member of NATO.

If, by some stretch of the imagination, this occurs, what are the knock on effects? How does the Warsaw Pact respond?
 
What it says on the tin. With any POD from the foundation of NATO in 1949, have the OTL Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia be a member of NATO.

If, by some stretch of the imagination, this occurs, what are the knock on effects? How does the Warsaw Pact respond?

The Warsaw Pact would do the sabre rattling. Greece,Turkey, Yugoslavia all in the NATO, what would Enver Hoxa´s Albania do ? Would Tito finally accept Marshall money ? How would NATO respond to Nationalist Croatian extremist groups, operating within their borders or Yugoslavian Secret Police hunting Opposition ? A problem I could see is the Italian-Yugoslavian hostility (Trieste stilll hot topic )and there might be problems between Western Germany and Yugoslavia, there are massive fresh wounds between them aswell...
 
My PoD would be the Hungarian revolution of 1956, making Yugoslavia afraid enough to consider the Balkan pact of 1953 insufficient for its security seeking full membership in NATO.
 
Wouldn't a lot of the anti-Communist rhetoric in NATO now be void if a Communist Country is a member?
Would a Communist Yugoslavia in NATO still be Communist ?

USSR might well declare it not really Communist and/or Yugoslavia might well take the money and be Communist in name only anyway?
 
Wouldn't a lot of the anti-Communist rhetoric in NATO now be void if a Communist Country is a member?

I suspect they would come up with something, there was/is alot of talk about democracy, human rights etc that hasn´t stopped support for various vile regimes
 
I suspect they would come up with something, there was/is alot of talk about democracy, human rights etc that hasn´t stopped support for various vile regimes
Yes,but Nato was built up after all as some sort of anti-communist league.It's whole rationale would look extremely weird if there's a communist country in it.
Would a Communist Yugoslavia in NATO still be Communist ?

USSR might well declare it not really Communist and/or Yugoslavia might well take the money and be Communist in name only anyway?

I don't know much about Tito,but wasn't the guy pretty much a genuine communist ideologue?
 
Yes,but Nato was built up after all as some sort of anti-communist,anti-totalitarian league.

Turkey wasn´t much democratic either(various coups, authoritarian governments, civil war in the 80es), neither was Greece at times (military Junta 1967-1974) ...
 
Turkey wasn´t much democratic either(various coups, authorithan governments, civil war in the 80es), neither was Greece at times (military Junta 1967-174) ...
But they aren't downright communist.American rhetoric pretty much demonized communism.They portrayed the cold war as a fight between capitalism and communist.
 
Turkey wasn´t much democratic either(various coups, authoritarian governments, civil war in the 80es), neither was Greece at times (military Junta 1967-1974) ...

Yeah, it wouldn't take much to re-jigger Yugoslavia's on-paper form of government in order to make it more palatable for NATO. Tito always carved his out path, and even if they were ostensibly Socialist/Communist Yugoslavia never really marched to the beat of Moscow's drum.
 

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Maybe under Đilas. But no way under Tito, Tito was simply too communist to want to be part of NATO or on the other hand to be allowed to be a part of NATO.
 
Yes, but NATO was built up after all as some sort of anti-communist league. It's whole rationale would look extremely weird if there's a communist country in it.
Not really, NATO was a defensive alliance whose main opponent just happened to be the communists. Okay it was also as Lord Ismay put it to "... to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down." but that's beside the point. The US might have painted the Cold War as a clash of ideologies between capitalism and communism but in Europe which has a lot more left-wing political parties not so much. Yugoslavia had a somewhat freer economy in comparison to the Soviet Union in the form of workers' self-management, they did a lot of trade with and exported to the West, and they had a fair amount of western tourism in areas like Croatia IIRC. Considering Spain, Greece, and Turkey it shouldn't have been too hard to bring them on board with a few tweaks here and there.
 
Right, so let's say that due to a combination of having a more reasonable/western leaning government (either through a worse Czechoslovak crisis spooking Tito, or someone like Đilas being in charge), and some creative mission statement re-jiggering, Yugolsavia is admitted into NATO.

How do the Russians react? Does this butterfly away the breakup of the country? If not, how does NATO react to a member state imploding so spectacularly?
 
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