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President of Yugoslavia Josip Broz Tito visited China for the first time in 1977, followed by a return visit of Chinese Prime Minister Hua Guofeng to Yugoslavia in 1978. The visit rekindled the Chinese-Yugoslav relations. At that time, it was the biggest reception a foreign dignitary recieved in the Peoples Republic
The Soko J-22 Orao (Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: Oрао, lit. 'eagle') is a Yugoslav twin-engined, subsonic ground-attack and aerial reconnaissance aircraft. It was developed and built in collaboration by SOKO in Yugoslavia and by Avioane Craiova in neighbouring Romania, being known in the latter as the IAR-93 Vultur. SOKO (Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: Соко) was a Yugoslav aircraft manufacturer based in Mostar, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina. The company was responsible for the production of many military aircraft for the Yugoslav Air Force.
The famous Zastava 750, also named Fićo, was the car that motorized the Yugoslav people and police. The Zastava 750 (Застава 750) was a supermini made by the Serbian car maker Zavod Crvena Zastava in Kragujevac. Production of the Zastava 750 began on 18 October 1955 and ended on 18 November 1985. The car's popularity has started increasing in the last years, partly from the low fuel consumption and very cheap price as a second hand vehicle. Also it starting to become a symbol for nostalgia, and many youngsters that need cheap utilitarian vehicle with a bohemian status symbol are buying this car as a second hand vehicle
"History has recorded the development of reformism in all developed capitalist countries. Already Marx and Engels pointed to the social and class roots of opportunism and reformism. For them, reformism is not accidental, the delusion of these or those ideologues, not even an accidental vacillation of these or those strata of the working class. There is a historical regularity of reformism. Its class essence and ultimate goal have a bourgeois character. The basic, prevailing social basis of reformism is the bourgeoisie. Part of the working class that was recruited from proletarianized strata, was connected to it by thousands of threads and ties. In the struggle to create a political party, Marx and Engels led an unwavering and irreconcilable struggle with petty-bourgeois reformism, which appeared in the form of Proudhonism and Lasallianism with reformist ideology, which was created by the labor aristocracy in England and later in the USA. Substantial layers of highly skilled workers in England were created by the high wages paid by the English bourgeoisie at the expense of the exploited colonies and the monopoly profit which it collected using the monopolistic position of England on the world market. In the English trade unions, reformism got its way in ideology and practice. England is, in fact, his cradle. The ideas of the class struggle, the principles of the dictatorship of the proletariat and the socialist revolution were alien to the trade unions. Representing the opinion of not changing the capitalist order, they denied the existence of class contradictions between labor and capital and claimed that neither labor nor capital can exist without each other, and there is not, and cannot be, antagonism between him..." Written by Josip Cazi (Yugoslav revolutionary and writer) in the book named "From the way of reformism to the way of class struggle". I sadly can't find an English translation (but I plan to translate the book). But here it is for my Serbo-Croatian speaking comrades: http://radnici.ba/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/S-puta-reformizma-na-put-klasne-borbe-Josip-Cazi.pdf
During World War II (1943–1945), the Yugoslav state was named Democratic Federal Yugoslavia (DFY), in 1945 it was renamed Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia (FPRY), and again in 1963 into Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY). The emblem of socialist Yugoslavia was designed in 1943 and remained in use up to 1963, when the country underwent reforms and was renamed for the final time. It featured five torches surrounded by wheat and burning together in one flame. As part of the 1963 reforms, the name of the country was changed into Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and its emblem was redesigned to represent six Yugoslav federal republics (instead of the five nations). The new emblem was the final version with six torches, and was in official use until 1993 (past the country's dissolution in 1992). The date in the insignia remained in the new emblem
Often throughout the post-war history of Yugoslavia, Comrade Tito was called a Trotskyist, by people who projected their internal instabilities onto a successful Yugoslavia. This article Comrade Tito wrote tells you how much Comrade Tito was against the Trotskyites and similar covert fascists. https://www.marxists.org/archive/tito/1939/x01/x01.htm
If I am to believe my school textbooks (which are not to be trusted more than half the time on recent history), Yugoslavia made use of the Marshall Plan, and if I'm to trust another book, related to that history period, but released when we still had socialism in Poland, the Marshall Plan was used by the USA to manipulate politics of the plan's beneficinaries to their likes. How did this affect the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, if at all?