After World War II, the communists established a dictatorship on the territory of the former Kingdom of Yugoslavia.<\/p>\n
That dictatorship, headed by Josip Broz Tito, distanced itself from the Soviet bloc directed from Moscow<\/strong>, adopting a very peculiar foreign policy, which did not avoid contacts with Western countries. In defense policy, the curious situation in Yugoslavia forced it to monitor two fronts:<\/strong> that of NATO and that of the communist dictatorships grouped in the Warsaw Pact (PACVAR). This explains, in a way, the point chosen for the installation of one of its air defense radars.<\/strong><\/p>\n That point was Gola Plje\u0161evica, a mountain 1,648 meters above sea level<\/strong>, located right on the border between Croatia and Bosnia. The radar installed on its top, a British Marconi S-600, had a range of 400 km and could monitor possible incursions from Italy (a NATO member), Hungary ( member of PACVAR) and Austria<\/strong> (a neutral country).<\/p>\n During the Croatian war of independence, the summit of Gola Plje\u0161evica was in the hands of the Serbian military<\/strong> (who destroyed much of the place before abandoning it) until it was liberated by the Croats in 1995. Subsequently, This facility was used as a communications center by the NATO Implementation Force (IFOR)<\/strong> between 1995 and 2004, according to zeljava-lybi.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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