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<keyword id="1524166" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Yoshihide-Suga">Yoshihide Suga</keyword>, the new leader of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, was elected as the new Prime Minister to succeed Shinzo Abe in an extraordinary parliamentary session on Wednesday.<br /><br />Suga has been chosen as Japan's 99th Premier in the Diet.<br /><br />The political transition comes after Abe Shinzo's surprise announcement last month, that he would step down to deal with health issues. Suga won a commanding victory in Monday's vote for the leader of the main ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) , reports NHK.<br /><br />He's well known to Japanese as the voice of their longest-serving government, acting as Abe's Chief Cabinet Secretary for more than seven years.<br /><br />Later in the day, Suga will announce the members of his new cabinet before being formally inaugurated at a ceremony at the Imperial Palace.<br /><br />At the age of 71, Suga will be the oldest Prime Minister to take office since Kiichi Miyazawa in 1991. His premiership will last through the remainder of Abe's term as LDP leader until September 2021, Xinhua news agency reported.<br /><br />In the run-up to his inauguration, Suga said he would continue to promote Abe's policies, including his "Abenomics" of aggressive monetary easing, fiscal stimulus and structural reforms, to breathe life back into the recession-hit Japanese economy.<br /><br />Suga will also continue the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic, utilising the 230 trillion yen (2.2 trillion US dollar) package allocated for tackling the disease.<br /><br /><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/international/news/yoshihide-suga-elected-as-shinzo-abes-successor-of-the-ldp-in-japan/articleshow/78102924.cms" data-type="tilCustomLink">Yoshihide Suga elected as Shinzo Abe's successor of the LDP in Japan</a><br /><br /></strong><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/startups/news/amid-india-china-standoff-tencent-is-back-with-an-investment-in-flipkart/articleshow/78140794.cms" data-type="tilCustomLink"><strong>Amid India-China standoff, Tencent is back with an investment in Flipkart</strong></a><br />

Yoshihide Suga elected as Japan's new Prime Minister, succeeds Shinzo Abe

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="3219462" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Melania-Trump">Melania Trump</keyword> gave a rare speech <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/rnc-night-2-was-surreal-event-fringe-right-wing-figures-2020-8">last night at the RNC</a> to make the case for her husband's reelection, expressing her sympathy for COVID-19 victims and calling for racial unity, while wearing a military-style olive green skirt suit.</li><li>CNN's <a href="https://twitter.com/jaketapper">Jake Tapper</a> reported that Melania didn't run the speech by the West Wing. While its conciliatory tone contrasted with Trump's usually brash speeches, some of her words were contradicted by her own past actions. </li><li>But a speech full of contradictions is actually pretty on brand for Melania, who is primarily known for having a keen sense of <keyword id="7" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="style">style</keyword> that's been compared to fellow first lady <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/513593-navarro-melania-trump-is-the-jackie-kennedy-of-her-time">Jackie Kennedy's.</a></li><li>Melania has used <keyword id="6" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="60" keywordseo="fashion">fashion</keyword> as both her cloak of invisibility and her weapon of choice.</li><li>While Melania has plenty of style, her legacy — unlike Jackie O's — is lacking.</li></ul><p>On Tuesday night, Melania Trump walked into her newly renovated White House Rose Garden for night two of the Republican National Convention. </p><p>Standing high in her heels, wearing an olive green skirt suit <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/08/26/melania-trump-rocks-alexander-mcqueen-military-jacket-at-rnc/">reminiscent of a general's jacket</a>, her look was a clear nod to the country's military families. But perhaps it was also a symbol: Had she come to protect and defend the ideals of Trumpism? </p><p>The suit, created by British designer Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen, is from McQueen's Resort 2020 Collection. In its November coverage of the runway show, <a href="https://www.vogue.com/fashion-shows/resort-2020/alexander-mcqueen">Vogue</a> called pieces in the collection "botanically weaponized ready-to-wear ... the perfect armor for any shrinking violet set on blossoming into a tall poppy totally immune to pruning."</p><p>Fitting, it seems, for Melania's purposes at the RNC last night.</p><p>On an aesthetic level, Melania's green outfit stood in stark contrast against her recently renovated Rose Garden, with its <a href="https://money.yahoo.com/not-everyone-happy-melania-trumps-155846886.html?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAFCMuq9YzlKqBVPcSDcvj_oPvIt2IAAagl-gpP2GORJ_2s6hGRhG2Q5EbI0CBuD-cQZQp6Lx_G6Q2B6Kg7R-1MIb18sU_0vteN-i-b-2Bt_YEQ2Tvk9KOmoPRslsTIhP9iDOUZe9yHnuZA03zaCUGl1JoCxM_ud9KaIjrvNAZpGxrvNAZpGx">"minimalist" and overwhelmingly white</a> new design. But it fit perfectly against the background of America: the reds, whites, and blues of the country's flag, and the olive green of its military history.</p><h2><strong>The absence of color in Melania's rose garden mirrors the glaringly white lineup of the RNC</strong></h2><p>As she stood in front of her new garden last night, Melania made the case for the nation's democracy: "Our diverse and storied history is what makes our country strong," <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/26/politics/melania-trump-speech-transcript/index.html">she said last night.</a> "And yet, we still have so much to learn from one another."</p><div type="image" title="Melania Trump" height="3828" width="5104" msid="77773127" hostid="261"></div><p>But there's a strange tension in the figure of Melania Trump, first lady for <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/us-presidents-most-divisive-polarizing/41/">the most nativist and divisive president</a> in American history.</p><p>In a long line of first ladies virtually always born in the US, she is only the second wife of a president to have been born outside of it (after <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/first-ladies/louisa-catherine-johnson-adams/">London-born Louisa Adams</a>, the wife of John Quincy Adams). Melania is also the first whose native tongue isn't English as well as the first naturalized US citizen. </p><p>By virtue of those facts, Melania technically ranks among the most diverse first ladies ever, and aspects of her <keyword id="6360041" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="life">life</keyword> story carry lessons that resonate throughout American history: About the importance of opportunity, the dangers of nationalism, and what wearing a nicely tailored outfit will help you get away with.</p><h2><strong>Melania Trump's comparisons to other well-dressed first ladies ring hollow considering her legacy — or lack thereof</strong></h2><p>Ahead of her speech, Peter Navarro, a trade adviser for the White House, called Melania the "<a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/513593-navarro-melania-trump-is-the-jackie-kennedy-of-her-time">Jackie Kennedy of her time</a>," saying she has the "beauty, the elegance, the soft-spokenness" of JFK's first lady. </p><p>Vogue's Edward Barsamian <a href="https://www.vogue.com/article/first-lady-melania-trump-best-looks-celebrity-style">has also made this comparison</a>, saying that on Trump's Inauguration day, Melania "laid the foundation" in her quest to help redefine the <keyword id="6358883" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="politics">politics</keyword> of fashion by wearing a blue Ralph Lauren dress that was "Camelot-inspired."</p><p>Barsamian was ostensibly referencing the <a href="https://wosu.org/2012/archive/jfk/myth.php">early-1960s era</a> when "Camelot" was the hottest show on Broadway and America had a youthful King Arthur and Guinevere of its own <a href="https://people.com/politics/jackie-kennedy-invented-camelot-jfk-assassination/">in the White House</a>.</p><div type="image" title="Melania Trump" height="1280" width="1707" msid="77773129" hostid="261"></div><p>But Melania's comparisons to Jackie Kennedy pretty much end at the hem. </p><p>Unlike Melania, Jackie O was known for standing solidly behind something — she was a patron of the arts, known not just for her renovations of the White House, but also, during the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson, for <a href="https://millercenter.org/president/kennedy/essays/kennedy-1961-firstlady">contributing support to both</a> the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities (<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/03/20/behind-the-loathing-of-the-national-endowment-for-the-arts-a-pair-of-despicable-exhibits-almost-30-years-ago/">both long targeted</a> by Republican politicians, <a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/trump-proposes-eliminating-nea-and-neh-again-1774236">including Trump</a>).</p><p>Melania, on the other hand, oscillates — mostly silently — between being annoyed at and vaguely supportive of her husband.</p><p>She regularly <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/melania-trump-donald-slap-hand-israel-visit-us-first-lady-president-child-treated-body-language-a7750871.html">smacks Trump's hand away</a> from her in public and has <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/bebest/">launched an anti-cyberbullying campaign</a> called "Be Best," even though her husband has made cyberbullying into a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-opposed-melania-cyberbullying-campaign-because-of-his-twitter-habits-2018-8">fact of public life</a>. </p><p>But when the president was criticized for interning children at the border, she wore a jacket that read "I really don't care, do U?" <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/brooks-brothers-j-crew-black-lives-matter-white-america-uprising-2020-8">while visiting those same kids</a>. And after her husband was heard on tape making crude remarks about the female anatomy, she wore a pink blouse <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/melania-trump-pussy-bow-blouse-2016-10">with a bow named after that same body part</a>. </p><div type="image" title="Melania Trump" height="2331" width="3108" msid="77773137" hostid="261"></div><p>Melania has long used fashion as both a cloak of invisibility and her weapon of choice. Her expressions are often as carefully composed and indecipherable as her perfectly tailored gowns, polished hair, and manicured hands, wrapped along the handles of an endless variety of Hermes Birkin bags. </p><p>By and large, Melania's poised style hasn't been matched by her prose, except when she spoke movingly at the RNC four years ago — although that speech <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-36832095">turned out to be strikingly similar</a> to one given by yet another former first lady, Michelle Obama.</p><p>From a style lens, the public perception of the current first lady and her predecessor couldn't be more different.</p><p>Michelle was often <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2017/07/michelle-obama-lanvin-sneakers-controversy">criticized, not celebrated, for wearing expensive clothes</a> — whereas Melania often wins praise for her fashion choices. Michelle <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/first-lady-melania-trump-vs-michelle-obama-fashion-cost-of-clothing-2017-8">was noted for her love</a> of more affordable brands, such as <a href="https://www.thecut.com/2017/01/see-photos-all-the-j-crew-michelle-obama-wore.html">J Crew</a>, and was most likely to don a <a href="https://footwearnews.com/2016/fashion/celebrity-style/michelle-obama-white-house-easter-egg-roll-outfit-converse-sneakers-photos-206841/">pair of Converse sneakers</a> on a day's outing.</p><p>Of course, affordable isn't Melania's schtick — it's Manolo Blahnik or bust. And the people <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/melania-trump-outfit-costs-2018-8">seem to have no problem</a> with that.</p><p>But perhaps what Michelle lacked in an endless supply of Dolce &amp; Gabbana gowns, she made up for in charismatic social efforts that have helped define her public persona — and current career as a professional speaker — today. </p><h2><strong>Last night's speech was on-brand for Melania: soft-spoken, full of contradictions, but ultimately well-polished on a surface level</strong></h2><p>The public address, a rarity for Melania, stuck out because of how tonally different it was from other RNC speeches these past two nights, as CNN's Jake Tapper noted during the live broadcast.</p><p>At the same time, much of what she said is in direct contast to her past actions. And while she said she's been "reflecting" on recent racial unrest and briefly acknowledged the nation's violent past, she didn't engage very deeply or meaningfully with the issue.</p><p>"It is a harsh reality that we are not proud of parts of our history," Melania said of America's legacy — one that includes her own birtherism nearly a <a href="https://twitter.com/GeoffRBennett/status/1298455653233696769">decade</a> ago, when she supported her husband in calling for then-President Obama to release his birth certificate to prove he was born in the US.</p><div type="image" title="Melania Trump" height="1167" width="1557" msid="77773140" hostid="261"></div><p>Still, Melania's speech had clear moments of compassion, and she spoke with a gentleness and eloquence that is simply not found in Trump's typical manner of speaking.</p><p>Unlike most in the lineup, she didn't attack liberals, and, as <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/25/us/politics/melania-trump.html?smtyp=cur&amp;smid=tw-nytimesimes">The New York Times pointed out,</a> she was one of the few RNC speakers to acknowledge the lives lost during the coronavirus pandemic. She also addressed the country's ongoing opioid epidemic and spoke about her plans as the first lady for the next four years.</p><p>"Total honesty is what we as citizens deserve from our president," she said, and then later, without a hint of irony, slammed social media for being an incubator for bullies. </p><h2><strong>It's ironic that Melania is such a relative non-entity in the political realm — because, given her background, she could speak more powerfully than most to the tumultuous American present</strong></h2><p>Melania is from Slovenia, a country that <a href="http://www.slovenija2001.gov.si/10years/path/chronology/">didn't even exist</a> until the 1990s and whose independence was <a href="https://history.state.gov/milestones/1989-1992/breakup-yugoslavia">one of the many dominoes</a> that toppled in the world created by the US' victory in the Cold War. She <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/04/donald-melania-trump-marriage">moved abroad</a> after Slovenia declared its independence, and said last night that she spent 10 years working on naturalization paperwork to become a United States citizen. </p><p>She even touched on her status as an immigrant and her birth country.</p><p>"Growing up as a young child in Slovenia, which was under communist rule at the time, I always heard about an amazing place called America," she said last night. "As an immigrant and a very independent woman, I understand what a privilege it is to live here and to enjoy the freedoms and opportunities that we have. As first lady, I have been fortunate to see the American dream come true over and over again." </p><div type="image" title="Melania Trump" height="3000" width="2072" msid="77773145" hostid="261"></div><p>Slovenia largely avoided getting drawn into the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ratko-mladic-srebrenica-massacre-bosnia-war-2017-11">bloody wars</a> of the former Yugoslavian republics, in the region known as the Balkans. The nationalism that set these republics against one another after they lived in peace for decades became known as "<a href="https://www.dictionary.com/browse/balkanization">Balkanization</a>." Some historians have warned of it happening elsewhere — even in the <a href="https://www.fpri.org/article/2018/11/rhetoric-violence-and-civil-war-the-balkanization-of-america/">increasingly tribalistic United States</a>.</p><p>Melania's move to America around 1996, when she was 26, coincided with the second term of Bill Clinton. It was also shortly after the so-called <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2007/11/congress-runs-into-republican-revolution-nov-8-1994-006757">"Republican Revolution"</a> that swept a new breed of right-wing leaders into public life — including several noted supporters of her future husband, like Newt Gingrich and Rudy Giuliani.</p><p>Their careers closely track America's tendencies toward a kind of Balkanization. If she wanted to, Melania could speak out against the dangers of this kind of division, having lived through it herself.</p><div type="image" title="Melania Trump" height="2054" width="2738" msid="77773147" hostid="261"></div><p>To be fair, politics aside, it's true that women are allowed to just be attractive and well-dressed; Melania doesn't owe us her time or her energy.</p><p>But if she <em>has</em> been trying to craft a real legacy while in the shadow of her husband, her attempts have only made her a pulchritudinous shadow, too — dolled up, made-up, standing on pillars in sinking sand.</p><div type="image" title="Trump Melania mar a lago" height="1138" width="1518" msid="77773149" hostid="261"></div><p>If Melania spoke more about her own experience as an American immigrant, she could, as Michelle Obama has for the Democrats, emerge as a powerful female voice in her party, alongside the few diverse female leaders the party already has: Indian American Nikki Hailey and Kimberly Guilfoyle, who cited herself as "<a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-puerto-rico-aoc-kim-guilfoyle-republican-20200825-y2sqqdc7wbae7ajrqbtt3utpiq-story.html">a first generation-American,</a>" the daughter of Irish and Puerto Rican immigrants (much to the dismay of those <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/puerto-ricans-push-back-kimberly-guilfoyle-s-first-generation-american-n1238042">who pointed out that Puerto Ricans</a> have been US citizens since 1917).</p><p>But instead, Melania is sticking to her long-established brand: good but not great speeches, touching on the surface level of real, urgent issues — but ultimately, not saying much.</p><p>In the end, perhaps Melania is simply, once again, letting her clothes do the talking: In her military-style jacket, she's like a sentry, safeguarding Trumpism but not meaningfully contributing to it at all. For better or worse.</p>

Is Melania Trump's legacy really just going to be a parade of fancy outfits?

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/Map-of-ceylon-c1692.jpg">Wikimedia</a></span></p><p class="caption">A map of former Ceylon, now known as Sri Lanka.</p></div><p></p></div></div>There's nothing quite like the bragging rights of a new, exotic stamp in your passport. However, that won't be happening with the following countries, which, as of astonishingly recently, no longer exist.</p><p>Whether they won independence, lost wars, got adopted by other countries, or simply got forgotten, here are 9 countries that ceased to exist in the 20th century.?</p><h3><strong><a href="http://www.moresnet.nl/english/geschiedenis_en.htm">Neutral Moresnet</a>, 1816 to 1920</strong></h3><p>After Napoleon's fall in<span> 1815</span>, Europe had to rethink its borders.</p><p>This small piece of land, <span>less than 1.5 square miles</span><strong> </strong>that used to be wedged between present-day Germany and Belgium, fell through the cracks when Europe's borders were redrawn, and became a "co-dominium," meaning that Belgium and then-Prussia shared custody of it: both had their eye on a profitable zinc mine.</p><p>The tiny territory was Dutch-Prussian prior to Belgium's 1830 independence, briefly German when annexed during World War I, and finally formally annexed by Belgium in 1920. Today, it essentially amounts to the Belgian city of Kelmis.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutral_Moresnet#/media/File:Moresnet_Karte.jpg">Wikipedia</a></span></p><p class="caption">A postcard of Neutral Moresnet, around 1900</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><h3><strong><a href="http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/mussolini-re-establishes-a-fascist-regime-in-northern-italy">Republic of Salò</a>, 1943 to 1945</strong></h3><p>Also known as the Italian Social Republic, Salò was essentially a Nazi satellite state in Italy, and run by Mussolini. Or rather "run" by Mussolini, as it was really only officially recognized by Germany, Japan and the rest of the Axis powers, and depended heavily on German troops to maintain control. While it claimed Rome as its capital and Northern Italy as its territory, it really centered around the small town of Salò, which is near Lake Garda and east of Milan. The rickety regime came to an end in 1945, on what's now known as Liberation Day, when, thanks to the Allied forces, every last German was removed from the country.</p><h3><strong><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/13/opinion/13sperling.html">Tibet</a>, 1912 to 1951</strong></h3><p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table center"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Wikimedia/Medill DC</span></p><p class="caption">Many believe that Tibet should become an independent country once more.</p></div><p></p></div></div>Of course Tibet has a history predating 1912 by thousands of years, but 1912 marks the year it officially became a recognized independent country, <a href="http://freetibet.org/about/tibets-history">proclaimed as such by the Dalai Lama</a>. Under a chain of Dalai Lamas, Tibet was a peaceful country, until Communist China invaded in 1951, occupying Tibet until it rebelled in 1959, leading China to annex it. Ever heard the chant "Free Tibet?" Tibet is still gunning for its independence to this day, and has many outspoken advocates.</span></p><h3><strong><a href="http://www.britannica.com/place/United-Arab-Republic">United Arab Republic</a>, 1958 to 1971</strong></h3><p>Mostly a political union between Egypt and Syria that hoped to thwart Israel, among other things, the UAR didn't last long, as Syria seceded from the republic after only three years (the fact that Egypt and Syria don't even share a border didn't help with cohesion). While Egypt continued to be known as the United Arab Republic for another decade, it was dissolved in 1971.</p><h3><strong><a href="http://www.britannica.com/place/Sikkim">Sikkim</a>, 1642 to</strong><strong> 1975</strong></h3><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Shutterstock</span></p><p class="caption">Sikkim, today.</p></div><p></p></div></div>Once a tiny Himalayan monarchy (the kingdom of Sikkim was established in 1642 when Phuntsog Namgyal was crowned the first<span> king of Sikkim)</span>, Sikkim was absorbed into India as its 22nd state in 1975. Before becoming  part of Northern India, Sikkim sat along the Silk Route to China and was bordered by Nepal, Tibet, Bhutan and India's West Bengal state.</p><h3><strong><a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-south-asia-12004081">Ceylon</a>, 1505 to 1972</strong></h3><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_left"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_T_Scowen_Landscape_in_Ceylon_1870s.jpg">Wikimedia/Charles T. Scowen</a></span></p><p class="caption">A photo of Ceylon in the 1870s</p></div><p></p></div></div>This South Asian country, better known as Sri Lanka, has a pretty <keyword id="6356001" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="international">international</keyword> history, having been a trading hub for Arabs in the 7th century AD, before the Europeans shooed them off. After that Ceylon was ruled by the Portuguese, then the Dutch, and finally the British from 1815 until 1948, when Ceylon gained its full independence.</p><p>In 1972 it changed its name to Sri Lanka.? </p><h3> </h3><h3><strong><a href="http://www.britannica.com/place/Czechoslovakia">Czechoslovakia</a>, 1918 to 1993</strong></h3><p>Once a sovereign state in Central Europe (surrounded by Austria, Germany, Poland, Ukraine and Hungary), having declared its independence from the now also defunct Austro-Hungarian Empire, <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/country_profiles/1844842.stm">what was Czechoslovakia peacefully split into two countries - the Czech Republic and Slovakia - in 1993</a>. </p><p>After the <span>Austro-Hungarian</span> collapse in 1918, <span>Czechoslovakia</span><span> was created by combining Austro-Hungarian leftovers, mostly Czech and Slovak lands. It was one of the more prosperous European countries, as well as one of the few with a peaceful, functioning democracy, at least until WWII, when it became occupied by Germany, before being occupied by the Soviets until that nation too disappeared. <span>Czechoslovakia thrived once more, but </span></span><span>since the Czechs and Slovaks had separate histories, cultures and values, their amicable split was somewhat inevitable.</span></p><h3><strong><a href="https://history.state.gov/countries/german-democratic-republic">East Germany</a>, 1949 to 1990</strong></h3><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Wikipedia/Frits Wiarda</span></p><p class="caption">The Berlin wall, which separated East Germany from West Germany.</p></div><p></p></div></div>The wall that dissected Berlin and divided<strong> </strong>East Germany from West Germany was created after WWII, when the Soviets founded the German Democratic Republic in response to the creation of the Federal Republic of Germany by the US, UK and France in 1949. The 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall meant the end of East Germany, essentially a Soviet satellite state, which was absorbed into the democratic Federal Republic of Germany when it reunified in 1990. East Germans had previously lived under strict communist rule, which ceased to exist in Germany along with East Germany.</p><h3> </h3><h3><strong><a href="https://history.state.gov/milestones/1989-1992/breakup-yugoslavia">Yugoslavia</a>, 1918 to 1992</strong></h3><p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Wikimedia/Cartographer of the United Nations</span></p><p class="caption">A map of former Yugoslavia.</p></div><p></p></div></div>Like Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia was a remnant of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, created after WWI by combining bits of other countries, mostly Hungary and Serbia, and by throwing together a smorgasbord of around 20 different different </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">ethnic groups</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">, along with their different cultures, traditions, and values. A kind of democratic monarchy, it was annexed by Germany in WWII until Nazi Germany collapsed, which is when Josip Tito, leader of the partisan army during WWII, took over, creating a socialist Yugoslavia under his dictatorship in 1946. Yugoslavia remained socialist until 1992, when it split into Croatia, Bosnia, Slovenia, Serbia, Macedonia, and Montenegro.</span></p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/frequent-flyer-travel-hacks-2015-7">8 travel hacks even frequent fliers don't know</a></h3>        <div>            <div>        <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="ZzMTM4djoMoeLreZT0851l11TuCSOysu" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div>        </div>        </div>            </div>

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