Eastern Bloc

Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country in the Caribbean. It comprises the eponymous main island as well as 4,195 islands, islets, and cays. Situated at the convergence of the Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and Atlantic Ocean, Cuba is located east of the Yucatán Peninsula, south of both Florida and the Bahamas, west of Hispaniola, and north of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. Havana is the largest city and capital. Cuba is the third-most populous country in the Caribbean after Haiti and Dominican Republic, with about 10 million inhabitants. It is the largest country in the C

Czechoslovakia ( ; Czech and , Česko-Slovensko) was a country in Central Europe created in 1918, as Czecho-Slovakia (until 1920), when it declared its independence from Austria-Hungary. In 1938, after the Munich Agreement, the Sudetenland became part of Nazi Germany. Between 1939 and 1945, the state ceased to exist, as Slovakia proclaimed its independence and Carpathian Ruthenia became part of Hungary, while the German Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia was proclaimed in the remainder of the Czech Lands. In 1939, after the outbreak of World War II, former Czechoslovak president Edvard Beneš f

1949–1990 country in central Europe, unified into modern Germany

barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic, enclosing West Berlin (1961–1989)

European Eastern Military Alliance (1954 – 1991)

constituent republic of the Soviet Union (1922–1991)

Marxist–Leninist founding and ruling party of the Soviet Union

sovereign state (1919–1922) and a republic of the Soviet Union (1922–1991); one of the founding members of the UN in 1945

term symbolizing the ideological-political conflict and physical boundary dividing Europe during the Cold War

one of fifteen constituent republics of the Soviet Union (USSR); founding member of the United Nations Organization in 1945; now Belarus

period of liberalisation in Czechoslovakia from 5 January to 21 August 1968

1956 revolution in Hungary

republic of the Soviet Union (1940–1991)

republic of the Soviet Union (1940-1991)

republic of the Soviet Union (1940-1991)

republic of the Soviet Union (1940-1991)

group of socialist states of Central and Eastern Europe

Polish trade union federation evolved into broad anti-authoritarian social movement

country of the Warsaw Pact and Eastern Bloc from 1947 to 1989

series of protests during 1989 overthrowing communist governments in Eastern Europe

1965–1989 republic in Southeastern Europe

The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, often abbreviated as Comecon ( ) or CMEA, was an economic organization from 1949 to 1991 under the leadership of the Soviet Union that comprised the countries of the Eastern Bloc along with a number of communist states elsewhere in the world.

blockade on Berlin imposed by the USSR from 1948 to 1949

union republic of the Soviet Union

Central Asian Republic (1978–1992)

Marxist-Leninist government of Albania (1946–1992)

Socialist republic ruled by the Bulgarian Communist Party (1946–1990)

communist political party and ruling state party of the GDR

1949–1989 socialist republic in Central Europe

Soviet foreign policy

republic in Central/Eastern Europe between 1960 and 1990

process that led to the creation of two independent nations, the Czech Republic and Slovakia

The '''Information Bureau of the Communist and Workers' Parties (), commonly known as Cominform''' (), was a co-ordination body of Marxist–Leninist communist parties in Europe which existed from 1947 to 1956. Formed in the wake of the dissolution of the Communist International in 1943, it did not replace that body, but instead mainly served as an expression of solidarity and as a means of disseminating Stalinist propaganda. The Cominform initially included the communist parties of the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Yugoslavia (expelled in 1948), France, and I

1941-1991 political party in Albania

events leading up to the end of Soviet rule in the Baltic nations

uprising against the German Democratic Republic

founding and ruling party of the Polish People's Republic from 1948 to 1989

August 1968 unrest in Czechoslovakia

1948 coup in Czechoslovakia

political party in Bulgaria between 1919 and 1990

thumb|Moscow Kremlin, where the highest of the elite Soviet nomenklatura lived The nomenklatura (; from , system of names) were a category of people within the Soviet Union and other Eastern Bloc countries who held various key administrative positions in the bureaucracy, running all spheres of those countries' activity: government, industry, agriculture, education, etc., whose positions were granted only with approval by the communist party of each country or region. While in the Russian language the term номенклатура has the same generic meaning as "nomenclature", in the context of the politi

1991 protest in Lithuania

political split between Josip Broz and Joseph Stalin of year 1948

oil pipeline in Austria, Belarus, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Ukraine

Interkosmos () was an international Soviet space program designed to promote cooperation among socialist countries in space exploration and research. Formed in April 1967 in Moscow, it was led by the Soviet Union and primarily involved allied or friendly countries from the Eastern Bloc and Non-Aligned Movement, which were provided training and technical support with crewed and uncrewed space missions.

communist party (1948-1956)

The ' (DVP; ), commonly known as the or VoPo', was the national uniformed police force of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) from 1945 to 1990. The Volkspolizei was a highly-centralized agency responsible for most civilian law enforcement in East Germany, maintaining roughly 257,500 personnel at its peak. It worked closely with the Stasi to maintain public order and identify threats to the government.

an international song contest consisting of both Post-Soviet states and members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation

graffiti painting on the eastern side Berlin wall

1984 international multi-sport event

alliance of media entities

Soviet cultural doctrine developed by Central Committee secretary Andrei Zhdanov in 1946 that proposed the world was divided into two camps: the "imperialistic", headed by the United States; and "democratic", headed by the Soviet Union

The Intersputnik International Organization of Space Communications, commonly known as Intersputnik, is an international satellite communications services organization founded on 15 November 1971, in Moscow by the Soviet Union along with a group of seven formerly socialist states (Poland, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Mongolia) and Cuba.

stage cycling race

communist rule in Poland

Post-communism is the period of political and economic transformation or transition in post-Soviet states and other formerly communist states located in Central-Eastern Europe and parts of Latin America, Africa, and Asia, in which new governments aimed to create free market-oriented capitalist economies. In 1989–1992, communist party governance collapsed in most communist party-governed states. After severe hardships communist parties retained control in China, Cuba, Laos, North Korea, and Vietnam. SFR Yugoslavia began to disintegrate, which plunged the country into a long complex series of wa

275px|thumb|A Deutsche Reichsbahn (East Germany)|Deutsche Reichsbahn official inspects the escape tunnel beneath [[Berlin Wollankstraße station in January 1962.]] 275px|thumb|Movement (1977–1986) Republikflucht (; German for "desertion from the republic", ) was the colloquial term in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) for illegal emigration to the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany), West Berlin, and non-Warsaw Pact countries. The official term was Ungesetzlicher Grenzübertritt ("unlawful border crossing"). Republikflucht applied to both the 3.5 million Germans who migrated l

greeting between socialist leaders

Soviet state security apparatus, secret police and security service