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nsajko on Aug 31, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Mikhail Gorbachev has died

Correction: Poland and Czechoslovakia weren't Soviet Republics, and Slovenia (Yugoslavia) wasn't even in the USSR sphere of influence.

jlbbellefeuille on Aug 31, 2022 | [–]

USSR Sphere of Influence > Yugoslavia > Slovenia < Yugoslavia < USA

(It wasn’t exclusively in the USSR sphere of influence, but it was in their sphere of influence.)

That’s how the USA imported the Yugo!

insane_dreamer on Aug 31, 2022 | [–]

Yes, of course, I was thinking East Bloc and wrote Soviet Republics instead.

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