Soviet-bloc complicity is suspected but not proven.    From Wordnik.com.  [This Well-Traveled Pope Has Crusaded . . . . . .With Fervor Against His Old Communist Foes] Reference

Socialism suffered a severe setback after the collapse of the Soviet-bloc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Contents] Reference

The end of the Cold War brought a lot of Soviet-bloc armaments onto the market.    From Wordnik.com.  [For Big Collector of Tanks, Panzer Was Last Hurrah] Reference

Turkish officials privately accuse Syria of training the group, with Soviet-bloc help.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Good Article on the Kurds | Letter Never Sent] Reference

They also voiced concerns about rampant corruption in Ukraine, a former Soviet-bloc country.    From Wordnik.com.  ['We Need Massive Assistance'] Reference

BTW, in reality, Soviet-bloc central planning was much more of a year to year adjustment thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Misunderstood, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

Is Daley attacking the former Soviet-bloc nations and China, which do manufacture such weapons?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Mayor Daley and other Mayors: Seek “redress against the gun industry” in the World Court ] Reference

Its previous high for gold was 10 at the 1984 Summer Games, when Soviet-bloc countries boycotted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Canada, after all, owned podium's top step] Reference

The Soviet-bloc nations transitioned with help, including integrationist projects like the EU and NATO.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Forward, One Back] Reference

But it wasn't until he retired that he began to explore Central Europe and the former Soviet-bloc countries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Profiles in Retirement] Reference

Upgrades of equipment -- particularly that of former Soviet-bloc manufacture -- is a growing segment of the market.    From Wordnik.com.  [Criteria For Decision Making On Us Arms Exports] Reference

Then came the giddy enlistment of former Soviet-bloc countries in NATO -- the "new Europe", as Rumsfeld hailed them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Hayden: The Neo-Cons Who Fabricated Evidence for the Iraq War Are Back] Reference

This planned EU expansion effort marked the first time that formal negotiations would include former Soviet-bloc nations.    From Wordnik.com.  [1996] Reference

It includes a striking number of former Soviet-bloc states that have historically put high priorities on science and math.    From Wordnik.com.  [Overall Ranking] Reference

He sardined himself into the creaking fuselages of the notoriously unsafe airlines of former Soviet-bloc banana republics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planes, Trains And Miseries] Reference

This EU expansion effort marked the first time in EU history that formal negotiations would include former Soviet-bloc nations.    From Wordnik.com.  [1996, Jan. 24] Reference

Samizdat was the clandestine copying and distribution of government-suppressed literature or other media in Soviet-bloc countries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Welcome « Anglican Samizdat] Reference

There the alliance will make critical choices about its mission in Afghanistan and expanding to several former Soviet-bloc nations.    From Wordnik.com.  [NATO Expansion Should Continue] Reference

President Obama has rolled back the missile-defense plan and shows little interest in adding more former Soviet-bloc states to NATO.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philip Seib: U.S. Needs a New Public Diplomacy Strategy for Russia] Reference

From 1960 until today, Cuba has been what its rulers call a socialist country, for decades the only Soviet-bloc state in the Americas.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Still Life of Castro] Reference

Serving 35 years as the ruler of Bulgaria made the longest-serving of any leaders in any of the Soviet-bloc nations in Eastern Europe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-04-13] Reference

Working as a civilian Army employee from 1969 to 1994, Trofimoff helped run a center for interrogating Soviet-bloc refugees in Germany.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Coda To The Cold War] Reference

He praises the achievements of Western spies during the cold war, for example, but never mentions that Soviet-bloc spies often bested them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lessons Of The Pagans] Reference

Soros sees his involvement in U.S. political affairs as a logical evolution of his work to create open societies in former Soviet-bloc nations.    From Wordnik.com.  [RICH MAN'S CRUSADE] Reference

Ex-Polish Prime Minister Jerzy Buzek was elected president Tuesday, making him the first leader from a former Soviet-bloc country to hold the post.    From Wordnik.com.  [Today’s Photos: July 14] Reference

The company shipped 3.9 million tons to Africa, Asia and former Soviet-bloc countries in the second quarter -- about the same as in the previous quarter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Information, Please...] Reference

Iraq is becoming one of the largest customers for U.S. arms, as the country turns from Soviet-bloc weapons to pricier but more sophisticated American weapons.    From Wordnik.com.  [OpEdNews - Quicklink: Iraqi forces load up on U.S. arms] Reference

Berlin Wall fell 20 years ago and helped end communism in Soviet-bloc nations.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Probe into large-scale mining, dam operations sought] Reference

Its Soviet-bloc engineering ... exuded the feeling it was assembled at gunpoint.    From Wordnik.com.  [chron.com Chronicle] Reference

When absorbed, the Soviet-bloc equipment would triple Egyptian military strength.    From Wordnik.com.  [WHAT REALLY HAPPENED] Reference

In the economic realm, the collapse of Soviet-bloc Eastern Europe in 1989 helped cement doi moi.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference

It originated from Soviet-bloc Communist sources and the PCF (French Communist Party) in France itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Army Rumour Service] Reference

The events of 1989 showed that the collapse of Communism in one Soviet-bloc country could rapidly spread to others.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eurozine articles] Reference

I've witnessed the end of the Cold War and visited Soviet-bloc nations as they emerged from behind the Iron Curtain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elites TV] Reference

The human rights activist was part of a trade also involving five alleged Soviet-bloc spies and three Westerners held in the East.    From Wordnik.com.  [CBS 2 - KCAL 9 - Los Angeles - Southern California - LA Breaking News, Weather, Traffic, Sports] Reference

But last month, Washington said it was dispatching Patriot missiles to Poland, the former Soviet-bloc state and now a NATO nation.    From Wordnik.com.  [RIA Novosti] Reference

Moscow earlier warned it would be forced to target its missiles at Poland if the former Soviet-bloc state hosted the interceptor missiles.    From Wordnik.com.  [RIA Novosti] Reference