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- proper noun historical The largely
Communist countries of theeastern world , usuallyEastern Europe and especially in theCold War era .
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Examples
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He continued to view communism as repugnant and habitually referred to the Eastern Bloc countries as “captive nations.”
TEAR DOWN THIS WALL ROMESH RATNESAR 2009
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Even more remarkable than the unabashed aggression exhibited by the ambitious government of the Eastern Bloc was the technical excellence with which it had been achieved.
Venus in Danger Mahr, Kurt 1976
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Two art galleries are beginning to flourish; there's talk about opening a cabaret with financial backing from Jude Law; and just two weekends ago, the Off Soho Suites-the one reliably tacky place on the block, which I always believed was some kind of Eastern Bloc cathouse-removed its monstrously conspicuous, bright red awning.
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Two art galleries are beginning to flourish; there's talk about opening a cabaret with financial backing from Jude Law; and just two weekends ago, the Off Soho Suites-the one reliably tacky place on the block, which I always believed was some kind of Eastern Bloc cathouse-removed its monstrously conspicuous, bright red awning.
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Comecon), 1949-1991, was an economic organization of communist states and a kind of Eastern Bloc equivalent to-but more geographically inclusive than-the European Economic Community.
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Meanwhile, in the Eastern Bloc, the introduction of reel-to-reel tape recorders in the 1960s helped create a vast underground culture of fans of rock, rhythm and blues, and later disco and hip-hop.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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Like rock-and-roll, Hollywood movies and comic books received just as much scorn from American political leaders as they did from Eastern Bloc authorities.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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Every nation of the Eastern Bloc had its own stiliagi.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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By the spring of 1989, an Eastern Bloc nation was about to do something even more radical: open a physical portal to the West.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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But the Soviet Union was then so closed to the world that—barring a plan to defect to or spy on the Eastern Bloc, or to head a Colombian guerrilla movement funded by Moscow, or to succumb to an overpowering desire to read Tolstoy in the original—it was rare for someone to see much point in learning Russian as a second language.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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