Eastern Bloc

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Cold War bloc historical region political bloc

The Eastern Bloc was a group of socialist states in Central and Eastern Europe under the political and military influence of the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

Aliases (13)

Eastern Bloc states ×2
Soviet Bloc ×2
Communist Bloc ×1
Eastern Bloc countries ×1
Eastern Bloc leadership ×1
Eastern Bloc militaries ×1
Eastern bloc ×1
Socialist Bloc ×1
Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc ×1
Soviet bloc ×1
Soviet bloc states ×1
Soviet sphere of influence ×1
Soviet-dominated Eastern Bloc nations ×1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Cold War bloc → historical region → political bloc →
alsoKnownAs	Communist Bloc → Socialist Bloc → Soviet Bloc →
borderFeature	Iron Curtain →
countryMember	Albania → Bulgaria → Czechoslovakia → German Democratic Republic → Hungary → Poland → Romania → Soviet Union → Yugoslavia →
culturalPolicy	socialist realism →
dissolvedFollowing	collapse of the Soviet Union → end of the Cold War →
dominantIdeology	Marxism–Leninism →
dominatedBy	Communist parties →
economicOrganization	Council for Mutual Economic Assistance →
economicSystem	planned economy →
endTime	early 1990s →
governmentType	one-party state →
hadCensorship	yes →
hadPoliticalRepression	yes →
hadStateOwnershipOfIndustry	yes →
includedTerritory	Baltic states under Soviet control → East Germany → Eastern Poland →
influencedBy	Soviet Union →
locatedIn	Central Europe → Eastern Europe → Europe →
mainSecurityAlliance	Warsaw Treaty Organization →
militaryAlliance	Warsaw Pact →
opposedTo	NATO → Western Bloc →
politicalSystem	socialism →
securityServiceModel	Soviet-style secret police →
significantEvent	Berlin Blockade → Fall of the Berlin Wall → Hungarian Revolution of 1956 → Polish Solidarity movement → Prague Spring → Revolutions of 1989 →
startTime	late 1940s →
timePeriod	Cold War →

Referenced by (54)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Bulgarian Communist Party → Czechoslovak Communist Party → East Germany → Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party → János Kádár ("Eastern Bloc leadership") → Polish People’s Republic → Polish Workers' Party →	partOf
East German Stasi → Eastern Bloc security forces → MGB → Society for German–Soviet Friendship →	operatedIn
Eastern Bloc ("Communist Bloc") → Eastern Bloc ("Soviet Bloc") → Eastern Bloc ("Socialist Bloc") →	alsoKnownAs
Council for Mutual Economic Assistance → Council for Mutual Economic Assistance ("Soviet sphere of influence") → East German National People's Army →	politicalAlignment
East German mark → National Front of the German Democratic Republic → Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance →	region
Democratic Republic of Vietnam → Government of North Vietnam →	alliedWith
Brezhnev Doctrine → SALT I Interim Agreement →	geopoliticalBloc
Dimitrov Communist Youth Union → Union of Socialist Youth →	historicalContext
Great National Assembly → Polish October 1956 ("Soviet bloc") →	politicalContext
PPSh-41 ("Eastern Bloc states") → Tupolev Tu-134 ("Eastern Bloc militaries") →	usedBy
First World →	alignedAgainst
LWP →	alignedWith
Czechoslovak Air Force →	alliance
Układ Warszawski →	appliesToJurisdiction
1952 Summer Olympics ("Soviet-dominated Eastern Bloc nations") →	firstTimeParticipation
Czechoslovak border guards →	geopoliticalContext
Basket II ("Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc") →	geopoliticalScope
communism ("Eastern Bloc countries") →	historicallyImplementedIn
Revolutions of 1989 →	location
Układ Warszawski →	memberOf
Todor Zhivkov →	movement
Republic of Vietnam ("Soviet bloc states") →	notRecognizedBy
socialist realism →	officialArtDoctrineOf
Służba Bezpieczeństwa →	operationalArea
Hallstein Doctrine ("Eastern Bloc states") →	opposedBy
MSZMP →	participatedIn
Eastern Europe →	politicallyAssociatedWith
Polish People’s Army →	politicalSystemContext
Czechoslovak StB →	regionOfOperation
Polish–Soviet relations →	relatedTo
Czechoslovakia–West Germany border →	separatedBloc
Central Front ("Soviet Bloc") →	side
Helsinki Accords ("Eastern bloc") →	signatoryBloc
Cambodian–Vietnamese War →	supporter