It was a term coined in the West and used by both sides to identify which set of nations were were pro-Soviet. It's opposite was the Western bloc/the West. It consisted of the USSR, Bulgaria, Romania, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland and Hungary. Albania left in 1960 and Yugoslavia got kicked out in the late 1940s. Mongolia, Vietnam, S. Yemen, Afghanistan, Nicaragua, North Korea, Egypt and Cuba have been included in the wider use of term on some occasions to.
The Eastern bloc was politically Communist and/or Socialist.
Also see[]
- Warsaw Pact
- COMECON
- Iron Certain
- Bamboo Curtain
- Inner German Border
- Collective farms
- Life under communism
- Soviet "Era of Stagnation"
- USSR
- GDR
- Cuba
- Congo (Brazzaville)
- N. Yemen
- Korean War
- Cold War
- Cold War radio jamming
- Cold War radio propaganda
- Cold War secret police organisations
- Czechoslovakia
- Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
- KGB
- GRU
- Zenit 2
- Soviet Nomenklatura
- A political diorama
- Mirna-class patrol boat
Links[]
- http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Eastern_Bloc
- http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/eastern+bloc
- http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Eastern_Bloc_politics
- http://www.sofmilitary.co.uk/shop-re-enactment-other-countries-eastern-bloc-countries-category,105
- http://www.wikiwand.com/simple/Eastern_Bloc
- http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/the-eastern-bloc
- http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/eastern-bloc#eastern-bloc_1
- http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/eastern+bloc