With its long and fortunate Adriatic Coast, Yugoslavia became a popular holiday destination and an attractive centre for students from the Non-Aligned countries with which the regime traded during the Cold War. Visitors and locals alike benefitted from the extraordinary and rapid modernisation of the country in the post-war years, including the introduction of universal free education (Hadzisehovic 2003; Tomasevic 2008), nominal gender equality (Sklevicky 1996), new roads, a railway line that linked Belgrade to the coast, healthcare and social insurance. The Yugoslav League of Communists (SKJ, Savez komunista Jugoslavije) formed from the Communist Party (KPJ, Kumunisticka partija Jugoslavije) in 1952 had a reputation as one of the most liberal Leninist parties in power during the Cold War era. In 1985, readers of a well-known guide book series were informed: 'Known as Milicija, Yugoslav Police are generally easy going and helpful' (Dunford et al. 1985, p. 8). Geoffrey Hosking (1985, p. 325) felt that its leader Josip Broz Tito had demonstrated that 'it was possible to institute a different kind of socialism'.