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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 of communist states of Central and Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America that were aligned with the Soviet Union and existed during the Cold War (1947–1991).
Module:Location map/data/Eastern Bloc 1948 is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Eastern Bloc countries in Europe, 1948. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.
The Eastern Bloc — formerly in Eastern Europe. Made up of the former European communist states, ... Module:Location map/data/Eastern Bloc 1948; M. Machine tractor ...
English: Cold War map of Eastern and Western Blocs in Europe. Map based on File: ... Western Bloc; Western Europe; Talk:Eastern Bloc/Archive 1; Talk:Eastern Bloc ...
Eastern Europe after 1945 usually meant all the European countries liberated from Nazi Germany and then occupied by the Soviet army. It included the German Democratic Republic (also known as East Germany), formed by the Soviet occupation zone of Germany. All the countries in Eastern Europe adopted communist modes of control by 1948.
Organizations that the Soviet Union created in order to solidify its control over Eastern Europe, and which tied the Eastern Bloc together, included: Comecon – the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance was founded in accordance with Joseph Stalin's desire to enforce Soviet domination of the lesser states of Central Europe. Initially, the ...
English: Map of flags of Eastern Bloc countries during the Cold War. Date: 15 October 2022: Source: Own work using assets from EasternBloc BorderChange38-48.svg: ...
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 of Soviet-controlled Marxist–Leninist governments in the region that would be later called the Eastern Bloc through a process of bloc politics and repression.