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[–] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Czechoslovakia was never part of the USSR

[–] artifex@piefed.social 11 points 3 days 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.

[–] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago

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

[–] j_overgrens 2 points 3 days ago

It was part of the empire though.