%0 Journal Article %T Political and Ideological Dimension of the 1948 Conflict Between the Soviet Union and Yugoslav in the Light of the Reports of Belgian Diplomats %A Kawka, Inga %J Central European and Balkan Studies %V 2021 %R 10.4467/2543733XSSB.21.006.13799 %N Tom XXX %P 65-78 %K Tito−Stalin conflict, Belgian diplomatic documents, Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, Iron Curtain, Cominform %@ 2451-4993 %D 2021 %U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/ssb/article/polityczny-i-ideologiczny-wymiar-konfliktu-z-1948-r-miedzy-zwiazkiem-sowieckim-a-jugoslawia-w-swietle-raportow-belgijskich-dyplomatow %X The article concerns the conflict between Tito and Stalin in 1948. The aim of the article is to define how the Belgian diplomacy perceived the split between the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, and, above all, how it diagnosed its causes and effects. Moreover, the analysis of Belgian diplomatic documents shows the great importance that Western countries attached to the first major breach in the Eastern bloc.