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Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by nsajko on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @09:30PM (#32657308)
Correction: Poland and Czechoslovakia weren't Soviet Republics, and Slovenia (Yugoslavia) wasn't even in the USSR sphere of influence.
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Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by jlbbellefeuille on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @10:46PM (#32657764)
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!

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Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by insane_dreamer on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @12:18PM (#32664408)
Yes, of course, I was thinking East Bloc and wrote Soviet Republics instead.
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