[rasz]

I was totally ignorant on the subject of Yugoslawia, and oh wow it managed to come out of Yalta as somewhat independent dictatorship and avoided establishment of USSR military bases on its territory by staying outside of Warsaw Pact.

[aguaviva]

The whole Eastern Bloc was quite multifaceted. And in its final years, so beautiful. (Those same places are still beautiful now of course, but in different ways).