eastern bloc in English

noun
1
the countries of eastern and central Europe that were under Soviet domination from the end of World War II until the collapse of the Soviet communist system in 1989–91, usually considered to include Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and Yugoslavia.

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1. The new Prime Minister is cultivating relationships with old Eastern Bloc countries.

2. Living conditions also declined in some other parts of the former Eastern bloc.

3. 28 At that time,(www.Sentencedict.com) Eastern bloc countries danced to the Soviet tune.

4. Both versions were produced in the Soviet Union and other Eastern Bloc countries.

5. At that time[http://Sentencedict.com], Eastern bloc countries danced to the Soviet tune.

6. You can't get a nut and bolt out of the Eastern Bloc without a bribe.

7. He resisted Nazism with the same determination he opposed the Communist regimes of the Eastern bloc.

8. Osip's people... They've been running Eastern bloc girls through Southern California for over a year, Frank.

9. The boycott was joined by 14 Eastern Bloc countries and allies, including Cuba (but not Romania).

10. 21 Until about 19 the Eastern bloc was the Soviet Union and the communist countries of Eastern Europe.

11. A three-star general, he was the highest ranking defector from the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War.

12. Until about 19 the Eastern bloc was the Soviet Union and the communist countries of Eastern Europe.

13. The Cuban armed forces, trained and equipped by Eastern Bloc nations, defeated the exile combatants in three days.

14. The nation state, particularly in the third world and the erstwhile Eastern bloc, is the agent of global capital.

15. Newer research since the 1990s also takes into account the archives of the former Eastern Bloc and thus brings up further discussion.

16. A socialist state was established, but because of the Tito-Stalin split, economic and personal freedoms were broader than in the Eastern Bloc.

17. The Czech Republic is regarded as one of the most tolerant Central European and former Eastern Bloc nations with regard to homosexuality and same-sex marriage.

18. Ruled by or relating to a Communist government: Until about 1991, the Eastern bloc was the Soviet Union and the Communist countries of eastern Europe

19. Brutalist architecture across the former Eastern Bloc is inextricably associated with the totalitarian regimes that marked the history of this part of Europe during the last half of the 20th century.

20. In 1968, Eastern Bloc member Czechoslovakia attempted the reforms of the Prague Spring and was subsequently invaded by the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact members, who reinstated the Soviet model.

21. While the Americans were forced to operate covertly, so as not to embarrass their allies, the Eastern Bloc nations made loud threats against the "imperialists" and worked to portray themselves as the defenders of the Third World.

22. Three years later, the Revolutions of 1989 that ousted communist regimes in the Eastern Bloc reinforced the concept (with the notable exception of the notoriously bloody Romanian Revolution), beginning with the victory of Solidarity in that year's Polish legislative elections.

23. The installation found a more positive response in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: "Oroschakoff – and this makes him a role model for many whose cultural identity has been dramatically upset by the opening of the Eastern bloc – has learned how to own up to his ambivalence."

24. ‘Immigrants, refugees, and Asylees constitute only a fraction of foreign-born persons who enter the United States each year.’ ‘The Jamestown Foundation Jamestown is a unique organization founded in the early eighties to assist Asylees and defectors from the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc countries.’

25. Commissar (or sometimes Kommissar) is an English transliteration of the Russian комиссáр, which means Commissary.In English, the transliteration "Commissar" is used to refer specifically to the political Commissars of Soviet and Eastern Bloc armies, while administrative officers are called "Commissary"

26. The Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (Československá socialistická republika in Czech and Slovak) was the official name of Czechoslovakia from 1960 until the end of 1989 (i.e., shortly after the Velvet Revolution), a Soviet satellite state of the Eastern Bloc and a member of the Warsaw Pact.