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		foobarian on July 28, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Galaksija computer was a craze in 1980s Yugosl... It may not have been a paragon of freedom and free speech like America but it was also very much not East Germany or the USSR.

jhbadger on July 28, 2020 [–]

Yes. Yugoslavia was different from the mainline communist countries in that it didn't lock its people away behind its borders. They could (and did) visit Western nations and for the most part didn't run away and defect the way the East Germans and Soviets feared their people would given the chance.

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