Countries of the Eastern Bloc (Cold War)

Soviet-Aligned States

The Eastern Bloc comprised the Soviet Union and its satellite states in Europe, plus allies in Asia and the Caribbean:

• Albania (until 1968, then non-aligned)
• Bulgaria
• Cuba
• Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic & Slovakia)
• East Germany (GDR, merged 1990)
• Hungary
• Laos
• Mongolia
• North Korea
• Poland
• Romania
• Soviet Union (dissolved 1991)
• Vietnam
• Yugoslavia (non-aligned after 1948, but often grouped)

Note: Yugoslavia was communist but independent of Moscow after the Tito-Stalin split; Albania left the Warsaw Pact in 1968.