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AnthillOmbudsman t1_ja5ay5a wrote

>Vulović travelled to the United Kingdom after completing her first year of university, hoping to improve her English-language skills. "I initially stayed with my parents' friends in Newbury," she recalled, "but wanted to move to London. It was there that I met up with a friend who suggested we go to Stockholm. When I told my parents I was living in the Swedish capital, they thought of the drugs and the sex and told me to come home at once." Upon returning to Belgrade

Jesus... giving up a dream of living in London in the early 1970s to move back to Yugoslavia. She would have probably had quite a different life in the UK, though I'm not sure what opportunities there were for Serbian expats in London 50 years ago. Maybe she would have ended up in the US.

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Kebo94 t1_ja8781o wrote

Lol, what do you think Yugoslavia was like in the 70s? You said it like she was going to the 18th century.

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maknathal t1_ja88dxs wrote

At that time Yugoslavia wasnicer than most european countries

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