Eastern Bloc
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During the Cold War, the term Eastern Bloc (or Soviet Bloc) was used to refer to the Soviet Union and countries it either controlled or that were its allies in Central and Eastern Europe (Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and—until the early 1960s—Albania).
See also
- The Lives of Others
- Berlin Wall
- Checkpoint Charlie
- Eastern European Group
- Post-Soviet states
- Second World
- Soviet occupations
- Telephone tapping in the Eastern Bloc
- Western betrayal
- Western Bloc
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