former Soviet Union and its satellite countries, union of Communist countries
During the
Cold War, the term Eastern Bloc (or Soviet Bloc) was used to refer to the
Soviet Union and its allies in
Central and
Eastern Europe (
Bulgaria,
Czechoslovakia,
East Germany,
Hungary,
Poland,
Romania, and—until the early 1960s—
Albania).The label "Eastern Bloc" was also used to collectively denote member states of the
Warsaw Pact (a Soviet-dominated military organisation) or the
Comecon (an international economic organization of
Communist states). Soviet allies outside of Eastern Europe, such as
Mongolia and often
Cuba,
Vietnam, and
North Korea were sometimes included in the term Eastern Bloc as well.
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