Santos visited the country. After the success of the series in Hungary, other communist countries also aired the show. In 1984, it became the most popular program in the history of Polish television, achieving an 81 share. Since then, it was aired at least two other times in the country. Lucélia Santos became the first non-Chinese leading actress of a television show broadcast in the People's Republic of China. It was the first soap opera aired in the Soviet Union in 1988–1989 (reduced to 15 hour-long episodes) and in Poland in 1985. The word (farm/hacienda) jokingly became a synonym for the small land plots used for dachas. In the show, is used as a synonym for plantation. It was broadcast in communist Albania in the 1980s, many parts of the series put together. Izaura is a famous name among babies born at that time, and so are few more names from the cast. Small FIAT police vans were for a while called "Isaura", a reference to the slave-like treatment that awaited most of those that were unlucky enough to ever be dragged into one. A running joke was that Tefta Cami, the minister of public instruction, went to the national TV station to see the last part of the series, in order to see it before the others. was also first telenovela broadcast in the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. It was broadcast with unexpected success in Serbia, Slovenia and Croatia in 1988. Although the series has been extremely successful, the telenovela craze in former Yugoslavian countries did not continue until ten years later with Kassandra in 1997. It was also broadcast in TVRI in Indonesia around 1986. The series was also the first telenovela broadcast in Algeria, where it aired under the title (Isaura) dubbed to Arabic in a summer of the 1980s at on EPTV. It has been extremely successful in the country at that time, especially among women. Criticism The novela was criticised by the Afro-Brazilian movement for the decision of director Herval Rossano to cast a white actress to play the leading role. Later in an interview, writer Gilberto Braga declared that he wished to cast Louise Cardoso to play Isaura, also a white actress. It was, however, one of the first telenovelas to feature a large black ensemble cast. See also List of films featuring slavery References External links Brazilian telenovelas TV Globo telenovelas