Question

What was the eastern block?

Answer 1

The Eastern Bloc, also known as the Communist Bloc and the Soviet Bloc, was the group of socialist states of Central and Eastern Europe, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America under the influence of the Soviet Union that existed during the Cold War.

Answer 2

Answer: The Eastern Bloc was a political and economic grouping of Soviet-style socialist states in Eastern and Central Europe during the Cold War. It comprised of countries that were under Soviet influence and were aligned with the Soviet Union politically and economically. These countries were under the control of the Soviet Union and had one-party communist systems of government. The Eastern Bloc countries included Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union.