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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Example Sentences

An AI-generated image soon circulated of Underwood’s familiar scowl—only this time, he was wearing an orange tracksuit in front of an Soviet-style apartment complex looking every bit an Eastern bloc taskmaster.

From The Wall Street Journal

"Many Madagascan military personnel... received their training in the Soviet Union and in Eastern Bloc countries. There is undoubtedly a legacy from that period," he said.

From Barron's

Somaliland’s security forces sported an assortment of nonstandardized uniforms and weapons, including many automatic rifles of late-period Eastern Bloc construction.

From The Wall Street Journal

In November 1989, the Berlin Wall came crashing down, and Antoniadi knew that all throughout the Eastern Bloc, business as usual was no longer a viable option.

From Slate

From the mid-1950s Eurovision quickly established itself as a big deal in Western Europe, while in the Eastern bloc song festivals in Czechoslovakia and Poland acquired the occasional tag of 'Intervision'.

From BBC