Rolling Stone discovers Genesis....FINALLY!

LOL it's funny how the common people in U.S. know just a little or nothing  about the history of the continent from where their ancestors immigrated. Serbia as a part of Marshal Tito's Ex-Yugoslavia was never "clouded by the Iron Curtain".

 

On the contrary, my beloved country at that time was threatened by Soviet Union & the Warsaw Pact countries because Marshal Tito was perceived by them as a "revisionist", due to 1) Tito's conflict with Stalin in 1948, 2) our self-management socialism what was something unique in the world, 2) the policy of nonaligment, what together with a decent level of the human rights and, after all, a wealthy society for European standards at that time, was an unique system and far away from so called "the real socialism". For example,  those two propaganda films about Yugoslavia (oh, excuse me, "advertising" is the right word!) are made in U.S. in 60s and 80s and both talk more than 1000s words about relationship with official Belgrade and White House at that time; as you maybe know, that kind of positive propaganda in favour of the countries of the Warsaw Pact was impossible in your country.

 

 

 

So, the copies of your Rolling Stone were sold here on newsstands altogether with British mags as Disc, Sounds, Melody Maker, NME and the German mag Bravo - which was actually the best European mag regarding the great colour pics & posters - prog rock bands including. Due to my poor English, I personally prefered Yugoslav mags; also, I loved to read about our domestic Prog and Rock music, what was, in Tito's Yugoslavia, considered as, say, a 'high art';  as such, it was strongly supported by the state, e.g. rock musicans who sold a lot of LPs and played gigs in many of new arenas and stadiums, they didn't pay taxes except a symbolic lump sum, etc.

Tito's Yugoslavia was a fantastic country of happy people; that's actually why Tito's Yugoslavia, ten years after his death, "must" be destroyed due to revenge by these fascists who were defeated in WW2 in Yugoslavia.

 

Visas for the countries of Western Europe we didn't have to have in our passport during Marshal Tito's Yugoslavia. Believe it or not, in late 70s & 80s, I went several times in London just for a weekend to buy new LPs, to drink beer at Soho's pubs and also to see some bands live. For example, in 1986 I went in London just to see Francis Bacon's exibition at old Tate Gallery and to see The Who (for second time) at Hyde Park where they played Quad. U.S. tourist visas were easily received, so I traveled with my red passport three times in NYC in 80s, as well as a tourist. For Soviet Union, we also had to have a visa for a tourist trip (sadly, just once time I've been in Moscow, as a tourist at Olympic games).

Gangster-socialism of nationalist Slobodan Milosević and NATO aggression on Serbia & Montenegro in 1999, what U.S. and your allies ( e.g. Oasis' fan Tony Bler) created in favor of Albanian UCK terrorists oganization in Kosovo, was something else. Nucleus of the UCK (engl. "Kosovo Liberation Army") were created long ago as a "child" of Sigurimi, Albania's secret police, who was a daughter company of the KGB; after the collapse of the Warsaw Pact, BND puts UCK under their control and armed them with weapons from ex-Warsaw pact countries until 1995, when UCK were start to be supported strongly by CIA. Now many of UCK fighters are in ISIS. It was that "smart" policy by your goverment(s) in Balkans; rather than to kill that nationalist and gangster Slobodan Milosević, you took care of terrorist organization in Kosovo "who fight against Milosevic's regime". Your actually the greatest allies in the Balkans, Serbian nation, were rejected by your goverment due to the Albanian lobby groups' ( with the bank acounts full of money from drugs ) activities in your Congress. Well, I understand that, it was / is "the rest of impressionable world".