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rfmcdonaldStrange Maps features a rather remarkable Yugoslavian map of a United States nearing collapse thanks to internal separatism and external attack, scanned from a Communist-era encyclopedia seen in Dubrovnik.
The discussion in the comments is quite entertaining, and enlightening. For all of its relative liberalism, it turns out, the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia still was run by people who believed in the historic inevitability of worldwide Communism. It's a minor irony that independent non-aligned Yugoslavia would not have fared well in the aftermath of such a crushing Soviet victory over the United States.
Although the Soviet navy has got the North American continent completely surrounded, in my opinion, the map does not demonstrate a Soviet plan of attack, but restates the Communist ideological orthodoxy of the US as an aggressive, unstable monstrosity at near-collapse – a remarkable example of the pot calling the kettle black.
• Whereas blue indicates the US itself (Sjedinjene Americke Drzave, acronym SAD – but that is a coincidence, I presume), yellow indicates ’separatist’ forces at work in the North American continent, such as Quebec (although that is a Canadian, not a US issue) and Black Muslims (around Chicago) and Mexican-Americans (in Texas). Again, a pretty remarkable comment, coming from a Yugoslav atlas.
• Item #5 on the legend indicates, I think, ‘disputed’ marine boundaries, mainly between Canada and the US, thus misrepresenting the mainly friendly relations between those two countries – the disputes might be real, but their significance is relatively minor.
The discussion in the comments is quite entertaining, and enlightening. For all of its relative liberalism, it turns out, the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia still was run by people who believed in the historic inevitability of worldwide Communism. It's a minor irony that independent non-aligned Yugoslavia would not have fared well in the aftermath of such a crushing Soviet victory over the United States.
