The Eastern Bloc is a collective term for the former Communist countries in Central and Eastern Europe. This generally encompasses the Soviet Union and...
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The Eastern Bloc, also known as the Communist Bloc (Combloc), the Socialist Bloc, and the Soviet Bloc, was the collective term for an unofficial coalition...
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security. Numerous notable Eastern Bloc citizens defected to non-Eastern Bloc countries. The following list of Eastern Bloc defectors contains notable...
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Eastern Bloc media and propaganda was controlled directly by each country's communist party, which controlled the state media, censorship and propaganda...
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imposed by countries in the Eastern Bloc, which consisted of the Soviet Union and its satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe. Legal emigration...
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Eastern Bloc politics followed the Red Army's occupation of much of Central and Eastern Europe at the end of World War II and the Soviet Union's installation...
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see the rise of communism and would ally themselves to the communist bloc include Mongolia, China, North Korea, Cuba and Vietnam. The spread of the communist...
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that it was more a merging of the eastern "Blocs" and the western "parties", in the political sense. He also notes that the name was not explicitly driven...
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formations in the Eastern Bloc. A candidate for ZOMO had to have a height of at least 180 cm and a weight of at least 90 kg. After the 1968 expansion...
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Homage to Catalonia (category CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of April 2024)
demonstration of communist tactics for seizing power, placing it within the post-WWII context of the formation of the Eastern Bloc and the People's Republic of China...
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Telephone tapping in the Eastern Bloc was a widespread method of the mass surveillance of the population by the secret police. In the past, telephone tapping...
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The Bloc of Communists and Socialists (Romanian: Blocul Comuniștilor și Socialiștilor, BCS), previously known as the Electoral Bloc of Communists and Socialists...
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Cold War (redirect from End of the Cold War (1962-1991))
and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II, and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. The term...
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Warsaw Pact (redirect from Warsaw Bloc)
between the Soviet Union and seven other Eastern Bloc socialist republics of Central and Eastern Europe in May 1955, during the Cold War. The term "Warsaw...
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Political warfare (category Warfare of the late modern period)
Subvert the Soviet Bloc, 1947–1956. p. 206. "Memorandum by the Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs (Barrett) to the Director of the Policy...
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demographic bloc and all states outside the South in the 1952 presidential election. He ended the Korean War, maintained the peace in Asia and the Middle East...
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collapse of most Marxist–Leninist governments in the Eastern Bloc and other parts of the world. This revolutionary wave is sometimes referred to as the Autumn...
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in Central and Eastern Europe, emphasizing regional cooperation. All of the parties in CEEGLA are from former members of the Eastern Bloc, and two are former...
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Army Roter Frontkämpferbund - Interwar period predecessor Eastern Bloc politics Similar formations: People's Militias ORMO Workers' Militia Patriotic Guards...
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European Solidarity (redirect from Bloc of Petro Poroshenko)
as a social democratic party, it shifted to the centre-right during the formation of Petro Poroshenko Bloc in 2014. Since then, it has been described as...
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the presidency of the Indian National Congress on 29 April after being outmaneuvered by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. The formation of the Forward Bloc...
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Comecon (redirect from List of members of the COMECON)
under the leadership of the Soviet Union that comprised the countries of the Eastern Bloc along with a number of socialist states elsewhere in the world...
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powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union, its allies in the Warsaw Pact and later the People's Republic of China). February 4–11: The Yalta Conference...
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on the basis of the Right Bloc movement, the formation of the All-Russian political party "Third Alternative" began. The reason for the emergence was...
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Iron Curtain (redirect from The Sinews of Peace)
states on its border in an Eastern bloc. Stalin's aims led to strained relations at the Yalta Conference (February 1945) and the subsequent Potsdam Conference...
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Military organization (redirect from Formation (military))
Angeles.[citation needed] In the United States this command is termed an army region. Some countries such as Brazil. Eastern Bloc People's Liberation Army...
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Berlin Wall (redirect from The Berlin Wall)
satellite states of the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War. Before the Wall's erection, 3.5 million East Germans circumvented Eastern Bloc emigration restrictions...
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Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations (ABN) was an international anti-communist organization founded as a coordinating center for anti-communist and nationalist...
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Following the end of World War II, elections were held in areas already under Soviet influence who would become members of the Eastern Bloc, that while...
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The Syria Turkmen Bloc (Turkish: Suriye Türkmen Kitlesi) or Syrian Turkmen National Bloc (Arabic: الكتلة الوطنية التركمانية السورية), is one of the two...
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