Iceland in the Cold War Iceland in the Cold War Throughout the Cold War, the nation of Iceland was a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) and allied with the United States, hosting a US military presence in Keflavík Air Base from 1951 to 2006. In 1986, Iceland hosted a summit in Reykjavík between United States President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev, during which they took significant steps toward nuclear disarmament. Five years later, in 1991, Iceland became the first country to recognize the renewed independence of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania when they broke away from the Soviet Union. Early in
State quality mark of the USSR of the Soviet Union Russian government introduced its own sign for certification of quality known as Rostest Mark (or R Mark) The sign was a pentagonal shield with a rotated letter K (from Russian word "Kachestvo" – quality) stylized as scales below the Cyrillic abbreviation СССР, "SSSR" (USSR) State quality mark of the USSR The State quality mark of the USSR (, translit. Gosudarstvennyi znak kachestva SSSR) was the official Soviet mark for the certification of quality established in 1967. It was used to mark consumer, production, and technical goods to certify that they met quality standards and, in general,