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OTL the Bhutanese monarchy managed to survive largely problem-free along the Cold War by keeping itself largely isolated from the outside world, only keeping some contact with India, it's backer, and then starting a very controlled opening process from the 90's onward (television only arrived there in 1999).
So the question I put is: Could other traditional regimes worldwide have taken this course and keep themselves as hermit kingdoms, keeping themselves largely isolated of the outside world alonf the Cold War, and only starting to take small steps to open themselves after the end of it?

Note: As I said, my point here is to debate traditional regimes (mostly monarchies, but conservative republics may also count) taking this strategy, so I'm not thinking here of communist/socialist autarkic states.
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