It marked the formal breach in relations between Yugoslavia and the rest of the Communist bloc.
Not even the stunning upheavals in Europe's Communist bloc have stimulated a proper reappraisal.
The Communist bloc has broken up, so Vietnam has no other way but to join ASEAN and APEC.
What originally was intended as an Italian city car became the symbol of Polish daily life in the Communist Bloc.
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North Korea in the mid-1990s was struggling after the collapse of its main economic sponsor, the Soviet Union, and the subsequent disintegration of the communist bloc.
Along with its historical relationships with communist bloc countries like Russia, China has reached out and developed two important economic allies in Canada and Africa over the past 10 years.
The kind of petty bribery once common in the former Communist Bloc, where citizens often had to pay to grease the wheels of government or get access to goods, has decreased sharply.
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The BBC's Dominic Hughes in Brussels says Russia's brief but violent war with Georgia still casts a shadow over relations with the EU, particularly those newer members from the old communist bloc.
The question asked if I had traveled to any of a list of nations after certain dates (all communist bloc countries) with a date listed by each nation (the date that each country had turned communist).
Last week, several conservative Euro-MPs from the former communist bloc - led by former Lithuanian President Vytautas Landsbergis and Hungarian Joszef Szajer - asked for communist symbols to be treated in the same way as Nazi ones.
China appears to regard three compelling reasons for adopting a changed approach: First, while the Chinese have recently made overtures to the Vietnamese on forming a new Asian Communist Bloc, the Chinese want the Vietnamese out of Cambodia.
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President Reagan inserted this thought into his speech, and the reaction in Moscow was one of uncontrolled fury: this, of course, was a language they well understood and interpreted to mean a declaration of political war against the Communist Bloc.
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In fact, the new communist trade bloc in the Americas bares the title, "The Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas" (ALBA).
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It mentioned the integration of the former communist eastern bloc countries.
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For decades, communist governments in the Soviet bloc have made a mockery of democracy through electoral fraud.
He helped form the first non-communist government in the Soviet bloc in 1989 and was later elected president of Poland.
Notably, this strategy will require Western governments and companies to work concertedly with private, non-communist groups in the Soviet Union and the East bloc (not simply the ruling regimes' leaders) with a view to stimulating and supporting forces that will inevitably lead to new economic and political structures, and hence a greatly diminished military threat.
He got hunting rifles from communist East Germany's Erich Honecker and Romania's Nicolae Ceausescu and all the other Eastern-bloc guys.
The communist regime in Czechoslovakia had been, along with those of East Germany and Bulgaria, among the most repressive Eastern bloc governments.
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