Eastern Bloc

Cultural  

1. The name applied to the former communist states of eastern Europe, including Yugoslavia and Albania, as well as the countries of the Warsaw Pact. (See also European Union and Iron Curtain.)

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Eastern Bloc

Much like in East Germany and other parts of the Soviet-led Eastern Bloc during the Cold War, authorities employed an extensive network of informants to monitor public sentiment.

From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026

I wish the Eastern Bloc system hadn't been there, but that's what it was.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

But he chafed against the strict dictums of the Eastern Bloc state and fled his native country in 1956, making his way to Paris by 1958, where he met Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

Still, the impressive power of the book club might have been better elucidated if details about its impact in other Eastern Bloc countries were brought into the story.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2025

Once his identity was established, the CIA spirited Goleniewski away to a safe house and eventually to Washington, where he handed over hundreds of names of Soviet and Eastern Bloc spies to the Americans.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau

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