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[โ€“] artifex@piefed.social 11 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Neither was Poland, but both were very much in the "2nd sphere", effectively under the control of the USSR. My family had close friends in Czechoslovakia who flat-out were not allowed to travel to the US to visit their family at the time, for example.

[โ€“] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 1 points 21 hours ago

Oh yeah it was very much under USSR control don't get me wrong