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Pavel A. Samsonov

@kenshirriff Huh, North Korea is outside of the red border?

Like 21 Jan 2023 at 18:29 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.social

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KanaMauna

@PavelASamsonov @kenshirriff I guess they knew which friends were reliable and which ones were not.

21 Jan 2023 at 18:37 | Open on sauropods.win

Pavel A. Samsonov

@KanaMauna @kenshirriff Then it's weird to have Yugoslavia on there given that Tito was explicitly anti-Soviet by 1975.

21 Jan 2023 at 18:41 | Open on mastodon.social

KanaMauna

@kenshirriff @PavelASamsonov True. Maybe this item dates to early in the Apollo-Soyuz project, which started in 1972?

21 Jan 2023 at 20:03 | Open on sauropods.win

Ken Shirriff replied to KanaMauna

@KanaMauna @PavelASamsonov Yes, I'm pretty sure this is from Apollo-Soyuz.

https://oldbytes.space/@kenshirriff/109728405244224595

22 Jan 2023 at 2:12 | Open on oldbytes.space

Pavel A. Samsonov replied to Ken

@kenshirriff @KanaMauna Yeah but Yugoslavia split with the USSR in 1948, there's no time during the space race when it would have been considered an ideological ally

22 Jan 2023 at 2:15 | Open on mastodon.social

первичный бульон с пельмешками replied to Pavel A. Samsonov

@PavelASamsonov @kenshirriff @KanaMauna
They somewhat reconciled under Khruschev (see the Belgrade declaration of 1955). The Hungarian revolution soured the things, but probably Yugoslavia was still a better bet than China or NK (due to the fresh Sino-Soviet split)

22 Jan 2023 at 4:53 | Open on mastodon.cloud