Canada in the Cold War American States, disliking the support and tolerance of the Cold War OAS for dictators. Under Pearson's successor Pierre Trudeau, US-Canadian policies grew further apart. Trudeau removed nuclear weapons from Canadian soil, formally recognized the People's Republic of China, established a personal friendship with Castro, and decreased the number of Canadian troops stationed at NATO bases in Europe. Brian Mulroney and Ronald Reagan had a close relationship, but the 1980s also saw widespread protests against American testing of cruise missiles in Canada's north. When the Cold War ended, Canadian Forces were withdrawn from their NATO commitments in Germany, military spending was
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,