Eastern Bloc

aspect of history

thumb|January 10, 1973. Soviet Jewish refusenik demonstration in front of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the right to emigrate to Israel, before being broken up by Soviet authorities. thumb|A rare type 2 USSR exit visa. This type of visa was issued to those who received permission to leave the USSR permanently and lost their Soviet citizenship. Many people who wanted to emigrate were unable to receive this kind of exit visa. thumb|Letter from the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs|MVD to a 76-year-old man from Sverdlovsk refusing him permission to move to Israel due to "knowledge of sta

sport boycott

rural agencies that supplied collective farms with agricultural machinery and people to run it

view that Western countries failed to meet their obligations with respect to Czechoslovak and Polish states during the prelude to and aftermath of World War II

communist party militia force of former East Germany.

after the German invasion of Poland in 1939 the Soviet Union invaded the eastern regions of the Second Polish Republic

centrally-planned economies with chronic shortages of various goods

National police agency of the Polish People's Republic

point of controversy during the Cold War

Communist organisation (1948–1989)

alliance of European radio broadcasters (1925–1950)

government of the German Democratic Republic

pest control campaign and propaganda operation in the Warsaw Pact, ca. 1950-1960

government of the German Democratic Republic

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Politics during Soviet occupation of Eastern Europe

anti-communist insurgencies fought against the Soviet Union and its satellite states after World War II