[flohofwoe]

True, but at least to me "Soviet era" is associated with the Soviet Union. As someone who grew up in Eastern Germany I would actually have expected that it is about a computer produced in the Soviet Union when reading "Soviet-era computer" (despite popular belief, not everything east of the iron curtain was part of the Soviet Union, countries had varying degrees of independence, even though the Soviet influence ran deep and depending on time and place was actually an occupation.

Within the group of European socialist countries, Yugoslavia was the most independent from the Soviet Union, and at times even an open opponent.

[acqq]

Indeed:

https://www.politico.com/story/2013/11/harry-truman-requests...

"The United States then began inching closer to Tito, supporting his regime rhetorically, economically and, finally, militarily, in order to ensure that Yugoslavia would remain out of the Soviet orbit. Throughout the Cold War, American officials saw in Tito a useful example of a communist leader who was not under the Kremlin’s thumb."

...

"With congressional assent, the United States and Yugoslavia signed a bilateral military agreement in November 1951 that tacitly incorporated Yugoslavia into NATO’s defensive web."

[acqq]

Cold War Diplomacy - Defense Treaties of the United States

https://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/mutdef.asp

(in 1949-1951)

- 1949 - NATO Treaty; April 4

- 1951 - Defense of Greenland: Agreement Between the United States and the Kingdom of Denmark, April 27

- 1951 - Defense of Iceland: Agreement Between the United States and the Republic of Iceland, May 5

- 1951 - Mutual Defense Treaty Between the United States and the Republic of the Philippines; August 30

- 1951 - Security Treaty Between the United States, Australia, and New Zealand (ANZUS); September 1

- 1951 - Military Facilities in the Azores: Agreement Between Portugal and the United States, September 6

- 1951 - Security Treaty Between the United States and Japan; September 8

- 1951 - Military Assistance Agreement Between the United States and Yugoslavia, November 14

[thriftwy]

Soviet

> A communist.

Yugoslav

> An unfaithful communist.

These good relations with USA did real good when their country was obliterated to shreds when it was no longer needed. Sigh.

[acqq]

> These good relations with USA did real good when their country was obliterated to shreds when it was no longer needed.

The US had these teachers:

"We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow."

https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/978019...

Always new counties which have to experience that.