A Serb friend of mine came here as a refugee from communist Yugoslavia. During the period of the 1967 6 Day War, he was working in a factory that manufactured weapons, mostly light artillery, much of it for export to Arab countries.
The Tito regime and the communist plant managers practically went into mourning as the disaster in the Sinai unfolded and became undeniable even for communist media. Propaganda had to shift from predicting the imminent demise of Israel to decrying the “dreadful massacre of our heroic Egyptian allies.”
The workers had to go along but, as my friend says, “We were laughing our arses off behind their backs.”
LOL :))